Elisabeth (Erzsébet) von Esseö (Esső). 1917. ●VIRTUTE — ●HOSTEM — SUPERO● (by virtue of superior force). Cast iron, lightly blackened, 65.6 mm, 57.82 g. Vorzüglich (extra-fine), some minor corrosion spots, cleaned and stabilized. Exceptionally rare.
Obverse: within a pearled double border, a naked, en face Hungarian helmeted warrior, head in profile to left, holds short sword or wide-bladed dagger point downward in his right hand; at left, Hungarian state arms, to right, Crown of St Stephen; title legend around edge inside inner pearled border, divided by images; artist's monogram encircled ƎE at lower right center.
Reverse: on ground-line crouching lion to right turns back snarling toward a second lion attacking from right and biting his haunch; legend ∙ANNO∙DOMINI∙MCMCCCCXVI∙ (year of our Lord 1917) around upper edge; artist's signature ∙Essoe E∙scvlt∙ (sculptor) in exergue.
Cf: Schulman, La Guerre Européenne, Catalogue LXXIII 1919, p. 78, 768.
Cf: Huszár, Lajos, and Béla Procopius. 1932. Medaillen- und Plakettenkunst in Ungarn, p. 199: 1922; pl. XXIX.