Circular gilt medal with eyelet for ribbon suspension; the face with the standing figure of Victory, left, presenting a laurel wreath to a classical Roman soldier, right; the reverse inscribed ‘ATENE / MAGGIO 1942 / XX’ and circumscribed ‘COMANDO SUP. FF. AA. GRECIA • GARE ATLETICHE’ within a laurel wreath; diameter 28.46mm (1.12 inches); a small age oxidisation spot to the upper centre of the face; without ribbon. Italy occupied the greater part of Greece from May 1941 until September 1943.
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