Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare Spanish Cross in Gold, with Case Auction Archive (Kriegsdenkmünze für Kämpfer 1813)

(Kriegsdenkmünze für Kämpfer 1813)

with the left overlaid by a maker’s label reading “WALOCH

rim impressed 589 L-NK

Monetny Dvor maker marked on the screwback)

5 mm to 40 mm

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare Spanish Cross in Gold, with Case Auction Archive (Kriegsdenkmünze für Kämpfer 1813)(Spanienkreuz in Gold mit Etui). Constructed of gilded tombak, consisting of a vaulted Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms joined through the quadrants by Luftwaffe eagles clutching mobile swastika, bearing a central raised mobile swastika situated within dual circular rings, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a rounded catch, unmarked, measuring 56. 44 mm (w) x 55. 43