Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Arbeitsgemeinschaft Hanau visually-hidden edge nicks and contact marks

edge nicks and contact marks on the BWM

bearing a silvered Soviet coat of arms

surmounting by a large Romain royal crown also in silver gilt

and complexity

NCOs and Enlisted Men for Sixteen Years' Service

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Arbeitsgemeinschaft Hanau visually-hidden edge nicks and contact marks(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, the suspension loop