Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Berg & Nolte consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 15 mm x 72 mm

15 mm x 72 mm

circumscribed by an inscription of “FÜR LEISTUNGEN IN DER HJ” (“FOR MERIT IN THE HJ”)

Instituted on 22 January 1809

the reverse presents an absent paper backer

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Berg & Nolte consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 15 mm x 72 mm(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, 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 six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, the suspension loop