Philippines, Republic. An Ancient Order Of Sikatuna, Commander (Lakan) Badge Newly Listed depressed medal bed

depressed medal bed

/ Of one who has lived two score years in one

Pillau Highly honored Captain

incorporating a blackened bronze crown

Philippines, Republic. An Ancient Order Of Sikatuna, Commander (Lakan) Badge Newly Listed depressed medal bed(Orden ni Sikatuna), Instituted in 1953. Three piece construction, in silver gilt with red, white and ultramarine blue enamels, in the shape of a Maltese cross with a sea lion emerging from the waves between the four arms of the cross, the centrepiece illustrating two arms, one gauntleted in European style and the other in tortoiseshell mail, both of which hold daggers that drop blood into a cup resting upon a treaty parchment scroll, representing the