Cuba, Socialist Republic. An Order Of Playa Girón, Single Class, C.1980 Auction Archive measuring 36 mm (w) x

measuring 36 mm (w) x 44

Sewn in place in the front of the cap is a standard BeVo style SS cap trapezoid

on a matching blue rayon backer

with a fasces bearing an eagle's head at the far left

Cuba, Socialist Republic. An Order Of Playa Girón, Single Class, C.1980 Auction Archive measuring 36 mm (w) x(Orden de Playa Girn). Instituted 1961. Type II (1979 ). A rare 2nd type silver gilt medal, the obverse centre consisting of an engraved armed soldier walking over the map of northern Caribbean, surrounded by a surmounted enameled Cuban flag on the top, with flanked silver laurel branches, as well as extending gear teeth on the bottom, reverse displaying a superposed silver medallion bearing the Cuban coat of arms surrounded by the inscription