Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duchy. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, Silver Merit Medal with 1914/8 Clasp Auction Archive Greece: Order of the Phoenix

Greece: Order of the Phoenix with gold-colored bullion wire crown

remaining better than very fine and better than fine

measuring 90 mm (w) x 140 mm (h)

A small number of other letters are addressed to recipients named Peter and Harald (possibly brothers or friends)

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”

Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duchy. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, Silver Merit Medal with 1914/8 Clasp Auction Archive Greece: Order of the Phoenix(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