Austria, Imperial. A 1914 Emperor Franz Joseph I First War Medallion by Arnold Hartig

(Franz Joseph I Erinnerungsmedaille). Constructed of bronze, the obverse with a rightward-facing profile of Emperor Franz Joseph I, flanked by name and title in abbreviated Latin, the reverse with a raised Austro-Hungarian machine gun crew topped by an angel, above a date of “1914”, maker marked “A. HARTIG”, measuring 50 mm in diameter, in extremely fine condition.