Austria, Republic. A Decoration Of Honour For Services To The Republic Of Austria, Large Gold Medal Hold with slight scratches

with slight scratches

thus becoming a "cause celebre" of the peacetime Navy

(Silberne Tapferkeitsmedaille II

with a locking clasp closure

superb quality

Austria, Republic. A Decoration Of Honour For Services To The Republic Of Austria, Large Gold Medal Hold with slight scratches(Goldene Verdienstmedaille). A large round gilt bronze medal, the obverse depicting an Austrian eagle, surrounded by the Coat of Arms of Austrias nine states, the reverse inscribed Fr Verdienste um die Republic sterreich (For Merit for the Republic of Austria), measures 45. 2mm (w) x 49. 7mm (h inclusive of integral suspension), weighs 33. 4 grams, marked BRONZE on rim near suspension ring, suspended from its period original ribbon, small edge knocks