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TURKEY
Small, GOLD Merit Medal, 28 mm., the obverse, with the Sultan’s Tughra, on a large beaming sun rising from the sea, the reverse, with a dreadnought-type warship at full-steam with the landscape of Constantinople, under a beaming sun, the suspension in the form of livesaving buoy, in original leather case of issue.
A very rare decoration, instituted in 1912, with a special class in gold of larger size (no pieces known), small gold, silver, bronze and nickel, it was awarded for any type of merit in the support of the renovating, Turkish fleet. The gold medals, were reserved by the sovereign as a special token of grace to prominent personalities. I RR!
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G19 p.1014.3