1901 Prussian Two-Mark Brooch Kaiser Wilhelm II & Augusta Viktoria

This finely made patriotic brooch is fashioned from an original 1901 Prussian Zwei Mark silver coin, commemorating the 20th wedding anniversary of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Empress Augusta Viktoria. The obverse shows the conjoined busts of the Imperial couple—Wilhelm in his distinctive Pickelhaube surmounted by the Prussian eagle, Augusta Viktoria crowned with flowers—while the reverse displays the Imperial German eagle with the legend “Deutsches Reich Zwei Mark 1901.”

Such brooches were popular souvenirs of loyalty among Imperial Germans at the dawn of the 20th century. The year 1901 marked not only the Kaiser's personal celebration but also a period of growing national confidence. Wilhelm II, grandson of Queen Victoria and the last German Emperor, envisioned himself as the divine custodian of a modern empire—an advocate of naval expansion, industrial might, and cultural unity under Prussian leadership. His wife, Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein, embodied the ideal of pious domestic virtue; together, they represented the domestic and martial pillars of the Reich.

This coin brooch, framed in delicate gilt and silver wire with bead terminals and an early pinback clasp, would have been worn proudly by a patriotic woman—perhaps a soldier’s wife or member of a veterans’ association—displaying personal devotion to the Kaiser and Kaiserin. Today it stands as a tangible relic of pre-war Imperial sentiment, just over a decade before the old order fell in 1918.

Diameter approximately 1.75 inches. Fine condition with dark toning, light wear, and a well-preserved clasp.