Germany, Third Reich. An Order Of The German Eagle, Bronze Merit Medal Newly Listed the 17th Reserve Battalion

the 17th Reserve Battalion

27 mm x 37

with an Unteroffizier wearing a 1939 Iron Cross II Class ribbon

both are mostly positive

Germany, Third Reich. An Order Of The German Eagle, Bronze Merit Medal Newly Listed the 17th Reserve Battalion(Verdienstorden vom Deutschen Adler, Bronze Verdienstmedaille). Instituted 1 May 1937. (1943 1945 Issue). Constructed of bronzed zink, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing a raised Maltese Cross with its quadrants joined by NSDAP style German national eagles clutching wreathed mobile swastikas, the reverse with an inscription of DEUTSCHE VERDIENST MEDAILLE (GERMAN MERIT MEDAL), unmarked,