Prussia, Kingdom. A Hohenzollern Medal For Combatants 1848-1849 GTRexclude 26 mm x 63 mm

26 mm x 63 mm

both medals in gilded bronze

Andrews cross in blue enamel

the Observer being wounded in the elbow

Version of  this badge in nickel silver is scarce

Prussia, Kingdom. A Hohenzollern Medal For Combatants 1848-1849 GTRexclude 26 mm x 63 mm(Hohenzollern Denkmnze fr Kmpfer 1848 1849). Instituted 23 August 1851 by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. (1849 issue). Constructed of bronze, the obverse with a raised depiction of the House Order of Hohenzollern, the reverse with a central inscription of FRIEDRICH WILHELM IV within dates 1848 1849, circumscribed by an inscription of SEINEN BIS IN DEN TOD GETREUEN KRIEGERN (EVEN IN DEATH, FAITHFUL WARRIORS), unmarked, measuring 29. 89 mm in diameter,