Austria, Imperial. A Public Concern & Excellent Knowledge Medal, C.1877 certificate_of_authenticity dark red enamels with white

dark red enamels with white boardering

This is the later pattern wappen with laurel removed and the smaller pattern crown

maker marked “Christian Lauer

"for using threatening language to his Superior Officer"

Austria, Imperial. A Public Concern & Excellent Knowledge Medal, C.1877 certificate_of_authenticity dark red enamels with whiteA circular medal constructed of bronze, the obverse bearing three people in Grecian style robes, the woman on the left clutches a wreath in one hand and a torch raised in the other, the person on the right is helmeted and bears a spear and a leaf, one arm rested on a rectangular plaque with a coat of arms, the centre person has their arm over the right person, an owl by their feet, to the far left is a statue of a woman, under this is the inscription