Cuba, Republic. A Group of Four Orders of Naval or Military Merit Auction the obverse presenting a right

the obverse presenting a right facing portrait of Simon Bolivar

The Order became obsolete in 1956

starting with:

it numbered just over 16

in May of 1947

Cuba, Republic. A Group of Four Orders of Naval or Military Merit Auction the obverse presenting a right1. (Orden del Merito Naval o Militar por Servicios Distinguidos 4a Clase) Order of Naval or Military Merit IV Class for Special Services, in the form of a Maltese cross with ball finials between the arms, superimposed on a laurel wreath and suspended from an open wreath by a ring and original light green ribbon with horizontal pinback suspension, the green enamel centre medallion bearing the intertwined letters MM and encircled by the motto HONOR