Vienna-Berlin Carrier Pigeon Flight Commemorative Medal

Features

Location Austrian Empire
Emperor Francis Joseph I (Franz Joseph I) (1848-1916)
Type Commemorative medals › Event medal
Year 1893
Composition Bronze
Weight 27.66 g
Shape Round
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
319889

Commemorative issue

Flight between Wien and Berlin

Obverse

Portrait of President facing left

Script: Latin

Lettering: AD. BACHOFEN v. ECHT PRÆSIDENT D. ORNITH VEREINES IN WIEN

Translation: Ad. Bachofen von Echt, President of the Ornithology Union in Vienna

Reverse

Carrier pigeon flying over landscape

Script: Latin

Lettering:
BRIEFTAUBEN · DISTANZ FLUG · WIEN · BERLIN · BERLIN · WIEN
30. JUL. 1893

Translation:
Carrier pigeons distance flight Vienna Berlin Berlin Vienna
30th July, 1893

Edge

Plain

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (1893) 

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