GOETZ: K-188 WWI Satirical

[Bronzemonger]

K-188 AMERICA’S PEACE OBJECTIVES (Amerikas Friedensziele), 1917, Cast Bronze, 57.6mm, 66.76g., VZ.

Obverse: Uncle Sam 'manning the rudder' of an armed sailing vessel. In border, "Friedensziele" (Objects of peace).

Reverse: Englishman, shipwrecked, trying to catch a life-buoy marked, "Amerika". In border, "3. Februar 1917".

 

[siepie]

As Uncle Sam is sitting at the rear end he can't really see in which direction he's navigating, can he?

 

[Bronzemonger]

As Uncle Sam is sitting at the rear end he can't really see in which direction he's navigating, can he?

It would certainly imply that the U.S. was steering in the wrong direction...