Circular bronze medal with loop for ribbon suspension; the face with oval medallions with the heads of (clockwise from the top) Kings Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, George I of Greece, Nicholas I of Montenegro and Peter I of Serbia imposed on a laurel wreath and circumscribed ‘СЪРБИЯ • БЪЛГАРИЯ • ГЪРЦИЯ • ЧЕРНА-ГОРА’ (Serbia Bulgaria Greece Montenegro); the reverse inscribed ‘СПОМЕНЪ ОТЪ ВОЙНАТА НА БАЛКАНСКИТѢ ДЪРЖАВИ ЗА СВОБОДАТА НА’ (In Commemoration of the War of the Balkan Countries for the Freedom of) above an ornate plaque inscribed ‘МАКЕДОНИЯ’ (Macedonia), dated ‘1912’ below, all within a circular laurel wreath, signed ‘L.CHR.LAUER’ and ‘NUERNBERG’; lacking ribbon. The medal was issued to mark the liberation of Macedonia from Ottoman Turkish rule following the First Balkan War in which an alliance of Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro and Serbia threw the Ottoman Turks out of almost all their remaining European territories. An excellent example of a rare medal.
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