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GERMANY: AR medal, 1902. AU

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GERMANY: AR medal, 1902. AU
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GERMANY: AR medal, 1902, Marienburg-7444, 32mm, Prince Heinrich of Prussia's Visit to America silver medal by Lauer, PRÄSIDENT ROOSEVELT / PRINZ HEINRICH around left-facing conjoined busts of American President Theodore Roosevelt and Prince Heinrich of Prussia // Z. ERINNERg A.D. REISE NACH AMERIKA 1902 / LLOYD DAMPFER KRONPRINZ WILHELM In Remembrance of the Visit to America 1902, Lloyd Steamship Crown Prince Wilhelm above the steam-powered S.S. Kronprinz Wilhelm sailing in open seas and engraver-marked LAUER below in waves, the contents framed in a beaded trim on both sides, surface hairlines, prooflike fields, AU. The S.S. Kronprinz Wilhelm was a German passenger liner built for the Norddeutscher Lloyd, a former shipping company now part of Hapag-Lloyd, by the AG Vulcan shipyard in Stettin, in 1901. She took her name from Crown Prince Wilhelm, son of the German Emperor Wilhelm II, and was a sister ship of the SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. She had a varied career, starting off as a world-record-holding passenger liner, then becoming an auxiliary warship from 1914-1915 for the Imperial German Navy, sailing as a commercial raider for a year, and then interned in the United States when she ran out of supplies. When the U.S. entered World War I, she was seized and served as a United States Navy troop transport until she was decommissioned and turned over to the United States Shipping Board, where she remained in service until she was scrapped in 1923.