Netherlands, Kingdom. A North Sea Flooding Medal, By Vereeniging Voor Penningkunst, C.1953 Buy Now measures 32 mm (w) x

measures 32 mm (w) x 33 mm (h)

13 mm (w) x 48

A career officer in the Army

The reverse features a maker’s mark near the ricasso reading “ Carl Jul Krebs

Netherlands, Kingdom. A North Sea Flooding Medal, By Vereeniging Voor Penningkunst, C.1953 Buy Now measures 32 mm (w) x(Watersnoodmedaille). A bronze medal measuring 59 mm in diameter, weighing 69 g, the obverse presents a figure rising out of a body of water, above the inscription WATERSNOOD 1953, the reverse centre features a dove in flight carrying an olive leaf, a reference to Genesis, inscribed GEN. 8: 11, circumscribed with NIL DESPERANDUM (NEVER DESPAIR), maker marked W between the doves tail feathers and wing, with white hard paper case, the exterior stamped