Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Paul Meybauer Auction Archive impressed around the rim HERZOGTH

impressed around the rim HERZOGTH GOTHA VND ALTENBVRG MDCCCXIV-MDCCCXV

the men of the First Marine Division

with a raised circular centrepiece bearing a maker’s mark of “G

published by the Oxford University Press

at the young age of 15 and served with them for twenty-three years

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Paul Meybauer Auction Archive impressed around the rim HERZOGTH(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six o'clock arm with a restitution date of 1939, the reverse six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, the suspension loop maker marked with LDO code L 13 for Paul Meybauer, Berlin,