Germany – Imperial States – Wurttemberg: Wurttemberg Silver Military Merit Medal 1892-1918 issue.
Condition: Good Very Fine
The medal was instituted in 1818 to be awarded for Military Merit. Wilhelm II became king on the 6th October 1891 and the new version of the medal bearing his image was introduced on the 26th June 1892. It was suppressed in 1918 when, along with all the other German rulers, Wilhelm was deposed at the end of the First World War. This examples dates from early in the First World War as it is of silver, later examples being made of silvered bronze and eventually Kriegsmetall. (zinc alloy).
