Direct from Germany. Nice, original medal, issued to WW1 Vets. by the Kyffhauserbundes, (War Veterans Support Association). 

"Die Kriegsdenksmunze 1914/18". 

Oval, 45mm x 30mm. The front has a tattered standard, lightning bolts below, dated ‘1914 1918’ to the left above a sprig of laurel, inscribed above "Blank die Wehr, Rein die Her" / Shining Arms, Pure Honour. Signed "HOSAEUS" at the base, all within a stylised laurel border. 

The reverse is inscribed "Aufrecht u stoß gehen wir aus dem Kampfe den wir über vier Jahre gegen eine Welt von Feinden bestanden, Hindenburg" / Upright and battered we came through four years of struggle withstanding a world of enemies, Hindenburg.  With a small five-pointed star above and below, circumscribed above "für Treue im Weltkriege" / for Loyalty in the World War. Circumscribed below "Der Kyffhäuserbund", a sprig of laurel to either side. 

Good, used condition, on a  length of replacement ribbon.

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The medal was instituted in 1922 and, until the issue of the Cross of Honour of the World War (Ehrenkreuz des Weltkrieges), better known as the ‘Hindenburg Cross’ in 1934, was often the only medal of the German soldiers of World War I. The Kyffhäuserbund der Deutschen Landeskriegerverbände veterans’ organisation was set up some years before World War I and Field Marshal Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg was its President of Honour during the 1920s. The  Kyffhauser Memorial, is on a mountain in Germany and was erected to honor Kaiser Wilhelm I, but also symbolizes a legend of German Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa. The myth says that Friedrich Barbarossa is magically hidden in the mountain and will come forth to save Germany in its time of greatest need!