Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, By Friedrich Linden Auction and the Knight’s Cross of

and the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross on 14 March 1943

Footnote: N

NSDAP stamp

maker marked “Anton Reiterer

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, By Friedrich Linden Auction and the Knight’s Cross of(Kriegsabzeichen der Marine Artillerie). Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, around a central depiction of a coastal artillery gun with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch,