Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Bronze Grade Newly Listed Instituted 1898

Instituted 1898

with functional hook and clasp

surrounded by a ring of red enamels with a gilt inscription of “NATIONAL-SOZIALISTISCHE D

maker marked and marked "GI" on the reverse

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Bronze Grade Newly Listed Instituted 1898(Panzerkampfabzeichen in Bronze). Constructed of bronzed feinzink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, topped by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, with a central Panzer IV on grassy ground, with its left tread extending beyond the wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, an unmarked oval crimp variant, measuring 41. 98 mm (w) x 60. 89 mm (h), weighing