Monaco, Principality. An Order of St. Charles, Officer

(Ordre de Saint-Charles). Instituted 1858. An Officer's Badge in silver, consisting of a white Maltese Cross with red bordering, ball finials, green enamelled laurels in each quadrant, obverse centre with the royal cypher with Latin Motto Princeps et Patria (Leader and Country) surround, reverse centre with an red and white enamelled centre and Latin motto surround Deo Juvante (God Help), marked with a boars head denoting French manufacture after 1838 and silver fineness of .800,  measures 41.3 mm (w) x 66.2 mm (h – inclusive of cross adorned crown), weighs 28.9 grams (including ribbon), worn on an original ribbon with large rosette, enamels damage to wreath near crown suspension, very dark patina to silver, 6 o’clock wreath tassels bent upwards, remains very fine.