Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duchy. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, Silver Merit Medal with 1914/8 Clasp visually-hidden suspended from a 115 mm-long

suspended from a 115 mm-long gilded bronze chain completing in a needle at one end and in a button at the opposite end

an official veteran’s replacement piece produced c

with six distributed on each side

maker marked “Klotz und Kienast

Moderate material fatigue is visible to the sweatband

Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duchy. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, Silver Merit Medal with 1914/8 Clasp visually-hidden suspended from a 115 mm-long(Silberne Verdienstmedaille des Herzoglich Sachsen Ernestinischen Hausordens mit Schwerterspange 1914 8). Instituted 25 March 1833 by Duke Friedrich of Saxe Altenburg, Duke Ernst of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, and Duke Bernhard Erich Fruend of Saxe Meiningen. (1918 1918 issue). Constructed of silver, the obverse bearing a rightward facing profile of Duke Carl Eduard of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, circumscribed by name and title, the reverse bearing a raised