Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, with Case, by the Vienna Mint Auction Archive encircled in a ring pattern

encircled in a ring pattern

measuring 59x78mm

the obverse overlaid by a central white enameled Maltese Cross with its arms joined together through the quadrants by NSDAP-style German national eagles clutching wreathed mobile swastikas on white enameled backgrounds

with the single rank of Grand Cordon

encompassed by a wreath of half oak leaves and half laurel leaves tied with a ribbon in a bow at the bottom and topped with a crown

Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, with Case, by the Vienna Mint Auction Archive encircled in a ring pattern(Die Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 13. Mrz 1938 mit Etui). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing two raised figures, one of which is clutching a flag and the other a length of broken chain, above a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a central date of 13. MRZ 1938, circumscribed by an inscription of EIN VOLK, EIN