Germany, Third Reich. A Parade-Mounted Sudetenland Medal

Item #G52621

Price:

$110

(Sudetenland-Medaille). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original parade-mounted ribbon with a dark green wool liner and horizontal pinback, the obverse of the medal bearing two raised figures, one of which is clutching a flag and the other a length of broken chain, above a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central date of “1. OKTOBER 1938”, circumscribed by a inscription of “EIN VOLK, EIN REICH, EIN FÜHRER” (“ONE PEOPLE, ONE NATION, ONE LEADER”), unmarked, measuring 32.15 mm in diameter, weighing 24/6 grams (inclusive if ribbon and mount), in extremely fine condition.