Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, By Schwerin Auction the inside of the box

the inside of the box stuffed with wrapping paper

Both are free of mothing

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1943 he suffered a shrapnel wound to the chin

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, By Schwerin Auction the inside of the box(Kriegsabzeichen fr die Marineartillerie). 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 German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, around a central coastal artillery gun with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked SCHWERIN,