GERMANY: AR medal, 1902, Marienburg-7444, 32mm, Prince Heinrich of Prussia's Visit to America silver medal by Lauer, PRÄSIDENT ROOSEVELT / PRINZ HEINRICH around left-facing conjoined busts of American President Theodore Roosevelt and Prince Heinrich of Prussia // Z. ERINNERg A.D. REISE NACH AMERIKA 1902 / LLOYD DAMPFER KRONPRINZ WILHELM In Remembrance of the Visit to America 1902, Lloyd Steamship Crown Prince Wilhelm above the steam-powered S.S. Kronprinz Wilhelm sailing in open seas and engraver-marked LAUER below in waves, the contents framed in a beaded trim on both sides, surface hairlines, prooflike fields, AU. The S.S. Kronprinz Wilhelm was a German passenger liner built for the Norddeutscher Lloyd, a former shipping company now part of Hapag-Lloyd, by the AG Vulcan shipyard in Stettin, in 1901. She took her name from Crown Prince Wilhelm, son of the German Emperor Wilhelm II, and was a sister ship of the SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. She had a varied career, starting off as a world-record-holding passenger liner, then becoming an auxiliary warship from 1914-1915 for the Imperial German Navy, sailing as a commercial raider for a year, and then interned in the United States when she ran out of supplies. When the U.S. entered World War I, she was seized and served as a United States Navy troop transport until she was decommissioned and turned over to the United States Shipping Board, where she remained in service until she was scrapped in 1923.
Price realized | 180 USD |
Starting price | 90 USD |
Estimate | 150 USD |