GREAT BRITAIN. Germany - Great Britain - United States. Sinking of the Lusitania Cast Iron Medal, 1915. PCGS MS-62. Eimer-1941Ab (for British copy); cf. Kienast-156 (for prototype). <em>After</em> K. Goetz. Diameter: 55mm. Obverse: The <em>Lusitania</em> sinking in heavy seas; legend in five lines in exergue / GESCHAFT UBER ALLES (<em>business above all</em>), Death (as a skeleton) standing left within ticket booth marked CUNA[RD]/LINIE and CUNARD (<em>the Cunard Line, owners of the ship</em>) above and to right, and FAHRKARTEN/AUSGABE (<em>ticket office</em>) below; to left, queue of passengers, one of whom reads a newspaper with the headline U/BOO[T]/GEFAH[R] (<em>U-Boat danger</em>). A pleasing British copy of the ever-popular original German issue by Goetz.
