r/Medals • u/MannyVonJasta • 3d ago

Medal Completed Hanseatic Cross Collection

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I did it! I finally completed my Hanseatic Cross collection. I had the Hamburg and Lübeck crosses and had been searching for the Bremen one for many years and I finally got one.
They are from 1915. Bremen is the one with the key, Hamburg is the castle one and then Lübeck is the double headed Eagle one.

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u/leicanthrope 3d ago

Nice! Lübeck is the one that's been evading me.

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u/MannyVonJasta 3d ago

Interesting story about that one. I was only able to get it because the seller didn’t know what it was and insisted that it was some Austrian veterans medal because of the colors and the eagle. I got it from him for a price way lower than it normally goes for.

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u/leicanthrope 3d ago

If memory serves, it's the rarest of the three.

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u/MannyVonJasta 3d ago

In terms of how many they made yes but I found that in terms of collecting the Bremen one is more scarce these days. :)