Silver-plated bronze medal (19,80 g, 38,3 mm), undated (1923), by Wittig-Friesen and Lauer, commemorating the 'Black Shame and Cultural Disgrace' on the Rhine (so-called 'German distress and shame taler'). Obv.: French colonial soldier with rifle menacing a kneeling naked woman. Rev.: Three-line inscription, a broken sword below. Fields cleaned, very fine-extremely fine.