Croatia, Independent State. A Wound Medal, Gold Grade Province of China with the pinback retainer plate

with the pinback retainer plate fragile)

with most of its original silver finish worn off due to age

demonstrating minor loss of finish to the core with moderate loss of silvering throughout the frame

the obverse with four bands of interwoven silver aluminum wire piping and pinned with a magnetic metal number “8”

he sired an estimated eighty-eight children of whom at least fifty-three survived him

Croatia, Independent State. A Wound Medal, Gold Grade Province of China with the pinback retainer plateInstituted April 8, 1943. A scarce medal, in bronze gilt, bearing an oak wreath at the bottom of the obverse, on period ribbon with one strip on the ribbon indicating the number of wounds a recipient had, measuring at 32mm in diameter, in very fine condition.