Yugoslavia, Kingdom. An Order of the Yugoslav Crown, III Class Commander

Item #EU16387

Price:

$340

(Orden Jugoslavenske krune). Instituted in 1930. Type II with Laurel Wreath. In silver gilt with red, white, green, light blue and dark blue enamels, measuring 55 mm (w) x 76 mm (h) inclusive of its wreath and laterally-pierced ball suspension, chipping evident on the reverse in the white enamels to the left of the cypher on the centrepiece and in the green enamels on the wreath, on a full-length replacement neck ribbon, near very fine.

Footnote: The Order of The Yugoslav Crown was instituted by King Alexander I of Yugoslavia on April 5, 1930, to commemorate his changing of the name of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.