Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duchy. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, Silver Merit Medal with 1914/8 Clasp Auction Archive Infantry Regiment "List"

Infantry Regiment "List"

below typed reason for the award (for grand merit in the field of German literature and promotion and advancement of “völkisch” views in German culture”

the ends of the arms designed with ornate swirls

two suspended from loops

Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duchy. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, Silver Merit Medal with 1914/8 Clasp Auction Archive Infantry Regiment "List"(Silberne Verdienstmedaille des Herzoglich Sachsen Ernestinischen Hausordens mit Schwerterspange 1914 8). Instituted 25 March 1833 by Duke Friedrich of Saxe Altenburg, Duke Ernst of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, and Duke Bernhard Erich Fruend of Saxe Meiningen. (1918 1918 issue). Constructed of silver, the obverse bearing a rightward facing profile of Duke Carl Eduard of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, circumscribed by name and title, the reverse bearing a raised