Austro-Hungarian Red Cross (civil version)

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The medal is a silver-edged white enamel cross with silver-edged red enamel inset panels. The obverse has a central circular white enamel medallion bearing a red enamel Greek (Geneva) encircled by a red enamel ring bearing the inscription in gilt letters ‘PATRIAE AC HUMANITATI’ (“Fatherland and Humanity“), and a green and red enamel wreath imposed indicating a wartime award. The reverse bears a central circular white enamel medallion bearing the dates in silver ‘1864’ and ‘1914’. The suspension ring is usually hallmarked and with the maker’s mark. The ribbon is white with red diagonal stripes. This is the civil version and as such is missing the war decoration and was often awarded to doctors and nurses.