Austria, Empire. A Medallion Mocking Gabriele D’annunzio & A Medal For The Federal Gymnastics Festival, 1930 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac seven with a gloss finish

seven with a gloss finish

A Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt (National Socialist People’s Welfare/NSV) membership pin

3rd Class: silver gilt and enamels

Footnote: Herbert Lance Wicks was born on September 15

Austria, Empire. A Medallion Mocking Gabriele D’annunzio & A Medal For The Federal Gymnastics Festival, 1930 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac seven with a gloss finish1. An iron medallion made to mock Gabriele DAnnuzio who switched his stance from an avid advocator against war to making anti Austria war speeches, on the obverse of the coin is the biblical figure Judas, a known traitor, and the featured Latin text dulce et probatum est in patriam loqui (translation: it is sweet and approved to speak to the country), with reverse bearing German Dem Verdienstreichen redner von quarto gabriele d'annunzio (translation: