Germany Bavaria WWI Golden Wedding Anniversary Medal of the Royal Couple King Ludwig III & Queen Maria Theresia Christmas 1918 by Boersch with Diploma Dated 1923

Imperial Germany – Kingdom of Bavaria:  Golden 
Wedding Anniversary Medal - in Iron. 
Signed "A.B." (Alois Boersch, Chief of the Munich 
Mint) on the reverse. With its diploma of issue, 
dated 1923. 
The medal was instituted in 1918 by King Ludwig 
to mark the 50th wedding anniversary of the 
Bavarian Royal Couple (King Ludwig III and Queen 
Maria Theresia) on 20 Feb. 1918. 
It was intended to be issued as a Christmas 
present to the troops (King's Regiments) under his 
Command (hence the inscription "Weihnachten 
1918" (Christmas 1918) under the portraits of the 
Royal Couple on the obverse side. 
A total of 14.000 medals were ordered but due to 
the November Revolution, the end of WW1 and the 
fall of the German Monarchy they were not 
distributed as intended. 
Instead, they were subsequently given to Crown 
Prince Rupprecht who distributed a large number 
of medals to attendees of the solemn burial of his 
father King Ludwig III, who died on Oct.18, 1921.
The remaining medals were unofficially awarded 
by the Bavarian Royal Household between 1921 
and 1935. 
The medal is quite rare and its diploma even 
rarer.

FULL SIZE

WW1 1914 -1918

Item 100% original - ribbon, diploma original

Condition as on the photos: The diploma has 
seen better days. It has tears, stains and it is 
folded.


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