103479 | GERMANY & ROMANIA. Romania's Balancing Act cast bronze Medal.

103479  |  GERMANY & ROMANIA. Romania's Balancing Act cast bronze Medal. Dated 1916 "Rumäniens Schaukelspiel"—on Romania's entry into World War I by declaring war against Austria-Hungary (57mm, 52.55 g, 12h). By Karl Goetz in München.

 

DER TREVBVNDLER / BRA- / TIANV, Ministerpräsident Ion I. C. Brătianu in military attire with tricorne hat, attempting to balance scale weighed and/or held down by sword with crown, Russian bear, and other allegorical representations of the Entente Powers // RVMÆNIEN'S SCHAVKELSPIEL, 27 AVG 1916, scale heavily favoring bag [of gold coins with five zeroes] over terms of entry, marked BVND'S / VERTRAG; three dice below to left. Edge: Plain.

 

Kienast 181. Choice Mint State. Warm brown surfaces, with some lighter highlights.

 

Here, Goetz is alluding to the idea that the the Entente Powers coerced Romania into joining the war on their side through offering gold. The presence of the dice serves as an allusion that the gamble had paid off for the allies.

 

Upload: 16 April 2026.