Austria Hungary WWI Signum Laudis Military Merit Medal with Crown Silver Class Kaiser Franz Joseph 1911 1916 in Zinc

Austro-Hungarian Empire: Military Merit Medal 
"Signum Laudis with Crown", Silver (1st) Class.
Issued by Kaiser Franz Joseph to officers. 
The medal was established in 1886 in its Bronze 
Class. 
The Silver Class was introduced in 1911 & ever 
since became the highest merit award of the 
Austro-Hungarian Empire. 
This is an example made of zinc and silvered 
zinc alloy (war time metal) instead of silver or 
silvered bronze, due to cost limitations and 
because bronze was reserved for the needs 
of the war effort. 
On original war time ribbon.

FULL SIZE

WW1 1914 - 1918

Item 100% original - ribbon original

Condition as on the photos: Deshaped ring

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