1924 Porcelain Hitler portrait medal, C-2

Max Oertel porcelain medal commemorating the fallen martyrs of the 1923 beer hall putsch. With the exception of the satirical medal by Karl Goetz making fun of the putsch, this is the first medal to portray Hitler as a political figure. It is cataloged as C-2 in the Medallic Portraits of Adolf Hitler by R.W. Colbert and William Hyder. The medal was issued as white porcelain and this special, more expensive version with the black swastika and red borders. This particular piece is the plate medal for Hyder and Colbert's article, Legal Rebellion, Potent Symbols and Extreme Rhetoric published in the August 2011 issue of the Numismatist. 46mm