103169 | GERMANY. Vizeadmiral Maximilian von Spee silver Medal.

103169  |  GERMANY. Vizeadmiral Maximilian Johannes Maria Hubert Reichsgraf von Spee silver Medal. Issued 1914. World War I series: the naval battle at Santa Maria (34mm, 18.02 g, 12h). By Max Ziegler for Hugo Grünthal [Robert Ball Nachfolger] in Berlin.

 

VIZEADMIRAL GRAF VON SPEE, uniformed bust facing slightly right // SEESCHLACHT BEI SANTA MARIA AM 1 NOVEMBER 1914, naval battle, with one ship sinking another in foreground; third ship in background. Edge: SILBER 990. Zetzmann 4047; Klose –; Art of Devastation –. PCGS SP-64. Exceptionally prooflike and dazzling, with frosting upon the devices and subtle color nearer the peripheries. Tied with just four others for the top spot in the PCGS census. Though without the colorful toning, finer by a single point than a similar PCGS SP-63 that we sold a few years back.

 

German and British forces unexpectedly met off the coast of Chile near Coronel on 1 November 1914, with the forces of Spee easily overcoming those of the British, led by Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock.

 

Upload: 17 August 2026.