Lusitania Medal - Karl Goetz' satire at LusitaniaMedal.com

Welcome...

...to LusitaniaMedal.com, a website about the Lusitania medal. The original design of the medal was originally created by the German medalist, Karl Goetz (pronounced "Gets", or at least that is as close as my American tongue will allow), and was later copied by the British for propaganda purposes during World War I and by others for their own reasons.

Click on the links at left to browse around the site. I have plenty of information here: a short biography on Karl Goetz, images and descriptions of the basic design of the Lusitania medal he created, a summary of the different varieties of the medal, including various producers, as well as sales information for a book I'm writing and some of the duplicate Lusitania medals I've collected.

I've also added the Article and Presentation links. The first takes you to an extract of an article I wrote for the winter, 2003 issues of The Calcoin News (CSNA) and The Quarterly (NASC) titled, "The Lusitania Medal and its Varieties." The second takes you to a PDF of a PowerPoint slide show I presented at the CSNA San Jose Convention in January, 2004.

Finally, I also have links to some of the sites that helped to get me started on my research on this medal and the great Cunard liner, as well as others that are useful or just plain fun.

Enjoy your visit, and I hope you find enough of interest here to want to collect some of these miniature works of art yourself...

Greg Burns