Russia, Soviet Union. An “Excellence in Socialist Competition of the Ministry of Coal Industry of the USSR” Badge Newly Listed measuring 65 mm (w) x

measuring 65 mm (w) x 130 mm (l) x 30 mm (h)

The decoration is on its period ribbon with a hook and eye and a rosette

and with a crescent moon and star in-between each arm

is trimmed from end-to-end with dark green piping

Instituted 1823

Russia, Soviet Union. An “Excellence in Socialist Competition of the Ministry of Coal Industry of the USSR” Badge Newly Listed measuring 65 mm (w) xConstructed of bronze and enamels, depicting a coal worker holding a pneumatic hammer in one hand while wielding a flag bearing a profile of Stalin and Lenin looking left, the reverse with a threaded screw post and a non matching screw plate, unmarked, measuring 27. 11 mm (w) x 39. 9 mm (l), in fine condition.