Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Medal, Bronze Grade With Swords And Case, By Zimbler consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Footnote: The Army and Navy

Footnote: The Army and Navy Union of the United States of America is the oldest veterans' organization in America

front with DAF emblem of a mobile swastika within a fourteen-toothed cog

On March 13

1867-72 period issue

influenced by Jelačić

Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Medal, Bronze Grade With Swords And Case, By Zimbler consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Footnote: The Army and Navy(Militr Verdienstmedaille in Bronze mit Schwertern und Etui). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop from a crown suspension with its period original tri fold ribbon, the latter notably pinned with a sword clasp constructed of magnetic iron, the obverse of the medal bearing a raised and rightward facing profile of Emperor Franz Joseph, circumscribed by name and title, the reverse bearing a central wreathed inscription of SIGNUM LAUDIS (SIGN OF PRAISE),