Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Silver Grade Auction Archive reverse illustrating a scroll engraved

reverse illustrating a scroll engraved "Presented by INSTITUTO DA DEFESA NACIONAL Lisbon"

for 40 years of service

with 'B' Company on the right edge of Dodo Wood entering on the westerly edge

the reverse with an inscription of “DEUTSCHE VERDIENST-MEDAILLE” (“GERMAN MERIT MEDAL”) in raised Fraktur script

by 1 December 1918

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Silver Grade Auction Archive reverse illustrating a scroll engraved(Panzerkampfabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of 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, with a central Panzer IV rolling over grassy terrain, with its left tread extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring