Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Archive Challenger

Challenger

Charles V granted the Order the island of Malta and the Order settled here from 1530 to 1798 when Napoleon Bonaparte captured the island en route for Egypt

except much smaller

12 mm (w) x 44

on black wool base

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Archive Challenger(1939 Eisernes Kreuz II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). A Cross Patte of multi piece construction, consisting of a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse with an initial institution date of 1813 on the lower arm, on loop for suspension from its period correct replacement