Saxe-Coburg And Gotha, Duchy. A Duke Carl Eduard Medal, By L. Christian Lauer Newly Listed A beautiful 1870 cross pattée

A beautiful 1870 cross pattée with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed border

Ernst Gisbert Karl Julius Georg Groos and Laura Maria Colsman

an early example largely used by Afrikakorps personnel  in extremely fine condition

He died in 1995 at the age of 82

the reverse bearing the remnants of an illegible white ink mark

Saxe-Coburg And Gotha, Duchy. A Duke Carl Eduard Medal, By L. Christian Lauer Newly Listed A beautiful 1870 cross pattée(Herzog Carl Eduard Medaille). Instituted 6 August 1906 by Duke Carl Eduard. (1906 1911 issue). Constructed of silver, on loop for suspension from its period original neck ribbon, the obverse with a finely detailed rightward facing profile of Duke Carl Eduard circumscribed by name and title, the reverse with a central Saxe Coburg and Gotha Coat of arms, flanked by lions rampant, topped by a royal crown an inscription of FUER VERDIENST (FOR MERIT),