Spain: Cross for the National Militia 1823

Spain: Cross for the National Militia 1823, reduced size version, brass ten pointed cross, 23 mm, mural details between the arms, embossed circular centre (G 652), very fine.

Introduced in 1836 to distinguish the forces of the National Militia who join the regular army in attempting to defend the constitutional government against the forces arrayed by the absolutist monarch Ferdinand VII.