A crying baby lying on its back in a grapevine, his head to the left, with a large grape cluster below. Attached to the baby's left, lower chest is a gigantic, bloated, blood-sucking leech. In the field above the leech is the symbol for the French Republic.
The German Micheal is in a screw press which is being turned by the heads of two French soldiers. The few remaining coins are being squeezed from the Micheal's pockets.
Cite this coin
AoD 7513.7155.294.a (7513.7155.294.a), 1923–1923 AD. Corpus Apertum Nummorum Orbis Antiqui (CANOA). https://canoanumis.org/coins/aod-75137155294a/ (accessed: 2026-10-08). Full citation guidance: How to cite CANOA