Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, by Förster & Barth Republic of Constructed of bronze-finished zink

Constructed of bronze-finished zink

according to Maerz

Loads continued to increase in 1944 and 1945

measuring 42 mm x 41 mm

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, by Förster & Barth Republic of Constructed of bronze-finished zink(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 Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a central coastal artillery gun with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a crimped hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the