Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Bravery Decoration, I Class in Gold Newly Listed the coin featuring a palm

the coin featuring a palm tree with seven branches and bearing two clusters of fruit (the palm tree a well recognized symbol of Judea in those days and is to be found on many Hebrew coins)

with stitched reinforced buttoning holes and general service buttons (left shoulder missing button)

measuring 41 mm (w) x 45 mm (h)

Footnote: Herbert Henry Rolt was born on December 30

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Bravery Decoration, I Class in Gold Newly Listed the coin featuring a palm(Tapferkeits und Verdienstauszeichnung fr Ostvlker I. Klasse Gold mit Schwertern). Instituted 14 July 1942. (1942 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed starburst, bearing a central rosette situated within a circular laurel leaf wreath, with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the reverse with a barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 49. 80 mm (w) x