Description

Prussia 1863 Commemorative Medal for Veterans of the Napoleonic Wars: Tomback, awarded in bronze for combatants, 29 mm, 13.5 cm original ribbon w/yellow-black-white stripes; 1813, 1814, 1815. The medal was instituted by King Friedrich Wilhelm III on the 17th of March 1863 to mark the 50th anniversary of the wars against Napoleonic France and its allies that culminated in victory at Waterloo on 18 June 1815, scarce, mint luster, light wear.