A 1916 Spanish Morocco Campaign Medal certificate_of_authenticity two medals "blacked out"

two medals "blacked out"

and face the worst that the tyrant's might and enmity can do

on January 17

Design was subsequently changed in favor of larger medal with altered design

and Rio de Janeiro

A 1916 Spanish Morocco Campaign Medal certificate_of_authenticity two medals "blacked out"A 1916 Spanish Morocco Campaign Medal Bronze gilt on metal, 29. 7 mm x 53. 5 mm, contact marks exposing the metal base, surface oxidation, fine. Footnote: The medal was created on June 29, 1915 and awarded for meritorious service in Morocco from that date. Melilla on the North African coast had been Spanish since 1497 and Ceuta since 1668 but it was not until the early Twentieth Century that the Spanish began to expand into the interior, meeting stiff