the obverse centre presents a royal crown circumscribed by TREUE DIENSTE RESERVE LANDWEHR (FAITHFUL SERVICE RESERVE AND TERRITORIAL ARMY)
1940 (London Gazette 5390
with the forehead perforated by ventilation holes
1940 – 1944
You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge your Duty as such in the Rank of Lieutenant or in such other Rank as we may from time to time hereafter be pleased to promote or appoint you to
Russia, Soviet Union. An Order Of Lenin, Type Vi, Variation Ii, In Gold And Platinum Auction the obverse centre presents aInstituted April 6, 1930 by the Central Executive Committee. In Gold and Platinum, the obverse features a leftward facing platinum profile Lenin surrounded by a wheat wreath with a red enamelled star at 9 oclock, red enamelled hammer and sickle at 6 oclock, and a red enamelled flag from 12 to 4 oclock inscribed (Lenin), the reverse bears the Monetny Dvor Mint Mark and is engraved 419563, measures 38. 25mm (w) x 45. 15mm (h inclusive of integral