Spain, Franco’s Period. A Civil Order Of Alfonso X The Wise, Commander With Gold And Diamond Loop, C. 1950 Auction 65 mm x 93 mm

65 mm x 93 mm

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Spain, Franco’s Period. A Civil Order Of Alfonso X The Wise, Commander With Gold And Diamond Loop, C. 1950 Auction 65 mm x 93 mm(Orden Civil de Alfonso X el Sabio). Instituted 1939 by General Francisco Franco. 1939 present issue. In silver gilt, a red enamelled four armed Shamrock Cross, the obverse centre featuring an enamelled blue medallion with a superposed handmade figure of Alfonso X the Wise, surrounded by the inscription ALFONSO X EL SABIO REY DE CASTILLA Y LEON (Alphonso X the Wise, King of Castile and Leon), reverse depicting engraved typical of time period Spanish