Russia, Soviet Union. A Partisan Medal, I Class, Wartime Dated Example Buy Now and only 10 awarded

and only 10 awarded

but it grew larger

1896 in Yarmouth

inscribed "VIVE LE ROI" (Long Live the King) on the obverse

Russia, Soviet Union. A Partisan Medal, I Class, Wartime Dated Example Buy Now and only 10 awardedConstructed of silver, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon affixed to a pentagonal backplate, the obverse bearing leftward facing profiles of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, situated above a banner bearing a sickle and hammer flanked by initials (USSR), and circumscribed by an inscription of (TO A PARTISAN OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR), the reverse bearing an inscription of (FOR OUR SOVIET MOTHERLAND), topped by a sickle and hammer