Cuba, Socialist Republic. An Order Of Playa Girón, Single Class, C.1980 Auction Archive leather chin strap severed between

leather chin strap severed between the side clips

on a matching blue rayon backer

measuring 36 mm (w) x 44

one of two screws remaining in the base

Cuba, Socialist Republic. An Order Of Playa Girón, Single Class, C.1980 Auction Archive leather chin strap severed between(Orden de Playa Girn). Instituted 1961. Type II (1979 ). A rare 2nd type silver gilt medal, the obverse centre consisting of an engraved armed soldier walking over the map of northern Caribbean, surrounded by a surmounted enameled Cuban flag on the top, with flanked silver laurel branches, as well as extending gear teeth on the bottom, reverse displaying a superposed silver medallion bearing the Cuban coat of arms surrounded by the inscription