Title:
Berlin 1936
Description:
Olympic Games Berlin 1936 Participation Medals
Front: Five athletes representing the five continents pulling the ropes of the Olympic bell. Legend: "XI Olympiade, Berlin 1936" on either side.
Back: Olympic bell embossed with German eagle holding Olympic rings within five concentric circles.
Medals presented in round red case.
Designer: Otto Placzek
Mint: Heintze & Barth, Sperlich, Noack and Martin & Pilzing
Front: Five athletes representing the five continents pulling the ropes of the Olympic bell. Legend: "XI Olympiade, Berlin 1936" on either side.
Back: Olympic bell embossed with German eagle holding Olympic rings within five concentric circles.
Medals presented in round red case.
Designer: Otto Placzek
Mint: Heintze & Barth, Sperlich, Noack and Martin & Pilzing
Fun fact(s):
Designer Otto Placzek also created other commemorative medals for participants in airplane, automobile and bicycle rallies as well as for the carrier pigeon breeders who offered their birds for the Opening Ceremony festivities.
More Info:
Participation medals were made from bronze but produced by four different foundaries with the color unique to the foundary that cast them: bistre brown, dark brown, greenish brown and reddish brown.
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Front of Berlin 1936 participation medal in bistre bronze
Back of Berlin 1936 participation medal in bistre bronze
Front of Berlin 1936 participation medal in dark brown bronze
Front of Berlin 1936 participation medal in greenish brown bronze
Front of Berlin 1936 participation medal in reddish-brown bronze
Front of Berlin 1936 participation medal in bistre bronze
Back of Berlin 1936 participation medal in bistre bronze
Front of Berlin 1936 participation medal in dark brown bronze
Front of Berlin 1936 participation medal in greenish brown bronze
Front of Berlin 1936 participation medal in reddish-brown bronze