Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, By Friedrich Linden consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac possible fire damage

possible fire damage

the D-guard finished with a teardrop design

with six wheat stalks

engraved with the image of a partisan bearing a rifle

3 mm (h) and 77 mm (w) x 47

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, By Friedrich Linden consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac possible fire damage(Kriegsabzeichen der Marine Artillerie). Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, around a central depiction of a coastal artillery gun with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch,