Description
Deportees and Hostages of the Great War
with three destroyers in contact
good detailing
The document is most likely dated to the early 1950s
on original tri-colour ribbon with safety pin attachment)
Vatican. A Medal For Roman Firefighters Auction Archive Deportees and Hostages of theMedaglia per i corpo dei pomperi di Roma. Instituted in 1865. In bronze, obverse illustrating the right facing bust of Pope Pius IX, surrounded by the Latin inscription "PIVS IX PONTIFEX MAXIMVS", engraver marked "N. G." below the bust, reverse inscribed in Latin "COHORTI VIGILVM VRBAN EXPERIMENTO PVBLICE EXHIBITO XII CAL IVN MDCCCLXV", measuring 26. 3 mm in diameter, edge nicks, replacement ribbon, near extremely fine.