Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Principality. A Medal For Merit In War Newly Listed in small block capitals

in small block capitals

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and the symphonic metal album Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross in 2010

consisting of a padded red cotton patch bearing a machine-embroidered black wire sickle and hammer pierced by a gold bullion wire sword

at the age of 92 and was among the last survivors of the Corunna campaign

Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Principality. A Medal For Merit In War Newly Listed in small block capitals(Medaille fr Verdienst im Krieg). Instituted 21 August 1914 by Prince Gnther. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of magnetic metal, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse with a central monogram of Prince Gnther, above a date of 1914, the reverse with an inscription of VERDIENST IM KRIEGE (MERIT IN WAR), within a laurel wreathed joined together at the bottom by ribbon, unmarked, measuring 39. 53 mm in diameter, in better than