Spain, Franco Period. A Military Merit Medal, C.1936 Newly Listed SOLINGEN” and “SIEGFRIED WAFFEN”

SOLINGEN” and “SIEGFRIED WAFFEN”

the reverse with reinforcements to the cross but otherwise plain

its underlying base in brass

38 mm x 65

Spain, Franco Period. A Military Merit Medal, C.1936 Newly Listed SOLINGEN” and “SIEGFRIED WAFFEN”(Medalla Militar). Instituted in 1918 by Alfonso XIII of Spain. A solid silver medal of period manufacture, the obverse medallion presents a fight facing female figure holding a wreath, with the sun setting in the left background and a shield with a lion face on the on the right, the medallion is surrounded by a silver wreath with a rampant lion on each side, a small banner at 6 oclock reads AL MERITO EN CAMPANA, the reverse presents the Spanish coat