Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by C.F. Zimmermann certificate_of_authenticity Footnote: The Military Merit Medal

Footnote: The Military Merit Medal is a military decoration of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and is awarded for heroic achievement or meritorious service during

the obverse with a central medallion bearing an ornate crown in a field of light-blue enamels

measuring 270 mm (w) x 200 mm (h)

and consist of nautical imagery in the form of ships and fouled anchors

Instituted December 31

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by C.F. Zimmermann certificate_of_authenticity Footnote: The Military Merit Medal(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). 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 oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the reverse of the pinback maker marked with