Portugal, Kingdom. An Order Of The Immaculate Conception Of Vila Viçosa, I Class Grand Cross Badge, C.1900 Newly Listed Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and maternal grandmother of Carl XVI of Sweden

reverse with loop and dual attachment prongs

a Fat Man plutonium implosion-type bomb was dropped by an American B-29 on Nagasaki

the reverse of the runic tab retains a pristine Reichszeugmeisterei (RZM) label bearing a maker’s code of “A4/23” and a secondary code of “476153”

Portugal, Kingdom. An Order Of The Immaculate Conception Of Vila Viçosa, I Class Grand Cross Badge, C.1900 Newly Listed Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha(Ordem de Nossa Senhora da Conceio da Vila Viosa). Instituted in 1818. Multi piece construction, in silver gilt with blue and white enamels, measuring 61. 8 mm (w) x 87 mm (h) inclusive of its crown suspension, without ribbon, obverse missing two of the nine small white enamelled stars, chipping and crazing evident in the white enamels on the rays on both sides, better than fine. Footnote: The Order of the Immaculate Conception of Vila Viosa was