African explorer Emin Pasha - Wilhelm II
Features
| Location |
German East Africa
 |
|---|---|
| Type | Commemorative medals › Personality medals |
| Year | 1890 |
| Composition | Silver plated tin |
| Weight | 12.08 g |
| Diameter | 31 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 371475 |
| References | Slg. Marienburg# 7647 Emil Bahrfeldt. Die Münzen- und Medaillen-Sammlung in der Marienburg. Verlag des Vereins für die Herstellung und Ausschmückung der Marienburg, Gdańsk, Poland (7 volumes). Josef Brettauer, Eduard Holzmair; 1937. Medicina in nummis: Sammlung Dr. Josef Brettauer. Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria. Horatio Robinson Storer, Malcolm Storer (ed.); 1931. Medicina in nummis: A descriptive list of the coins, medals, jetons relating to medicine, surgery and the allied sciences. Self-published, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. |
Obverse
Uniformed bust with helmet right.
Script: Latin
Lettering: WILHELM II DEUTSCH. KAISER
Reverse
Bust with hat facing right.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
EMIN PASCHA
DEUTSCH AFRICA
Comments
Emin Pasha was born as Eduard Schnitzler in 1840 in Opole. The doctor and traveler to Africa had been in Egyptian service since 1871, became government doctor in Sudan in 1876 as Emin Effendi and in 1878 governor of the Equatorial Province as Emin Bei. As a result of the Mahdi uprising, he turned to German East Africa, entered German service in 1890 and undertook an expedition to Lake Victoria, on which he, exceeding his assignment, hoisted the German flag over Tabora on August 4, 1890. In 1892 he was assassinated in Kinema on an expedition by order of the Sultan of Kibongo.
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