103251 | GERMANY. Gordon Bennett Cup silver Award Medal.

103251  |  GERMANY. Gordon Bennett Cup silver Award Medal. Issued 1904 for the 342-mile race near Bad Homburg vor der Höhe (33mm, 16.98 g, 12h). By Emil Döpler for L. C. Lauer in Nürnberg.

 

WILHELM • II • DEUTSCHER KAISER KÖNIG VON PREUSSEN •, bust of Wilhelm left; in background, rising sun over cityscape of Bad Homburg // Date above DAC monogram (Deutscher Automobilclub); Genius, holding torch, driving antique automobile right; to left, Victory standing right at back of auto. Edge: SILBER 0,990.

 

Wurzbach 9694. PCGS MS-63. Steely gray surfaces, with some deeper hues nearer the peripheries along with a charming matte nature throughout. Great early automotive type. Compare to a similar, though somewhat inferior example in Künker eLive 88 (21 July 2025), which realized a total of $449 after the buyer's fee.

 

The 1904 Gordon Bennett Cup, formally styled as the V Coupe Internationale, was an automobile race run on 17 June 1904 around the Taunus mountain range north of Frankfurt. As the 1903 race winner was from Germany, the privilege of hosting the 1904 race fell to that country, with Kaiser Wilhelm II suggesting this mountain range. The course, nearly 80 miles in length, hosted four laps, with the eventually winner—Léon Théry of France—beating a field of 17 other drivers hailing from six countries, all with an 11 minute margin of victory.

 

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Upload: 17 February 2026.