Medal Kruger Birthday; bronze

Features

Location	Austrian Empire
Type	Commemorative medals › Personality medals
Year	1900
Composition	Bronze
Weight	24.4 g
Diameter	39.5 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 460499
References	AM# 115 Anna H. Smith; 1958. Commemorative Medals of the Z.A.R.: An Exhibition of the Collections in the Africana Museum and the Transvaal Museum Augmented by Special Loans, 17 November - 11 December, 1958. Africana Museum, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. , Hern Medals# 260 Brian Hern, Peter Wilson (ed.), Henk Loots (ed.); 2008. Hern's Handbook on the Medallions of the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek and the Anglo Boer War. Self-published, Randburg, Gauteng, South Africa. , Laidlaw# 0051 South African Commemorative Medals (https://www.southafricanmedals.com/)

Commemorative issue

75th Anniversary of the Birth of President Kruger

Obverse

Bust of Paul Kruger facing

Script: Latin

Lettering:
PAUL
KRÜGER
PRESIDENT
DER
ZUID
AFRIKAASCHE
REPUBLIEK 10.OCT.
1825

Engraver: Anton Karl Rudolf Scharff

Reverse

Branch of an oak tree with leaves and acorns intertwined with a branch from an orange tree with leaves and fruit

Script: Latin

Lettering:
AAN DE
DAPPERE STRIJDERS
VOOR
REGHT
EN
VRIJHEID
1899-
1900

Engraver: Anton Karl Rudolf Scharff

Mint

Austrian Mint (Münze Österreich), Vienna, Austria (1194-date)

Comments

Laidlaw: The medal was commissioned by Baron Bachofen von Echt, an Austrian sympathetic with the Boer cause. The small lamb on the reverse is from the von Echt coat of arms. The proceeds from the sale were to go towards the support of dependents of Boer soldiers killed or wounded in battle.

The issue of the medal was intended to coincide with Kruger’s 75th birthday on 10th October 1900. Ironically on that day Kruger was in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique, awaiting the ship that would take him to exile in Europe.

No campaign medals were issued to Boer soldiers until 1920. This silver medal is occasionally seen with a loop attachment and the bearer’s name privately engraved on the edge.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1900

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