Frankfurt, Free City. An 1863 Commemorative Medal for Volunteers of the Napoleonic Campaigns Republic of (Orden de Mehdauia)

(Orden de Mehdauia)

the planned Axis invasion of Malta

with a banner below reading “Meine Ehre heißt Treue”

maker marked “PAUL KÜST

It features an 81

Frankfurt, Free City. An 1863 Commemorative Medal for Volunteers of the Napoleonic Campaigns Republic of (Orden de Mehdauia)(Erinnerungsmedaille). Constructed of a silver alloy, on loop for suspension, the obverse bearing a central depiction of a soldier of the Free City of Frankfurt, flanked by a stone bearing dates 1813 1815, circumscribed by an inscription of MIT GOTT FR DEUTSCHES VATERLAND (WITH GOD FOR THE GERMAN FATHERLAND), the reverse bearing a wreathed inscription of ZUR 50 JHRIGE IUBELFEIER DER FREIWILLIGEN VON FRANKFURT A M AM 11. DEC. 1863 (TO THE 50TH