Gilt bronze and enamel Greek cross with looped ribbon, between and as though threaded through the arms, with loop for ribbon suspension; the face with the cross in gilt-edged grey enamel with black and white enamel looped ribbon between and as though through the arms, a central circular medallion imposed with a gilt Balkan Moslem townscape on an orange enamel ground within a circular gilt studded border; the reverse plain; slight loss of silvering to the central medallion of the face; on an old faded incorrect ribbon in the colours of the City of Rome. The Cross was instituted in 1924 by the Unione Nazionale Reduci Oriente Balcanico for the veterans of the Balkan campaigns of World War I against Austro-Hungarian and Bulgarian forces who had over-run Serbia and was announced in the Domenica del Corriere of 23 March 1924. The original was inscribed and maker-marked on the reverse and is very rare (we have only ever seen two examples). We believe this is probably an old copy but may be a second, later version.