A Mint Iron Cross 1939 Second Class With Its Boutonniere GTRexclude on a 20 mm thick

on a 20 mm thick brown marble base

In its hard-shelled case of issue

were met by very deadly fire from hidden machine guns

maker marked “RZM 39” on reverse

silvering on eagle nearly completely gone

A Mint Iron Cross 1939 Second Class With Its Boutonniere GTRexclude on a 20 mm thickAn Eisernes Kreuz 1939 2. Klasse; a cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed border; on loop for suspension (marked 25 for Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Graveur Gold und Silberschmiede Hanau); with its mint and unissued period original ribbon; the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm; the reverse with the original institution