The Silver Medal of Menelik II was one of the significant decorations within the Crown’s gift, theoretically ranking just behind the Gold Medal of Haile Selassie I (after that medal was introduced during the reign of Haile Selassie).1Ibid.
There is no record, however, that a recipient would be likely to receive both the Menelik and the Haile Selassie medals, so the matter of precedence scarcely, if ever, would arise. When it was originally created, it was to rank second to the Menelik II Gold Medal.
No recent awards have been made of this decoration, and the Crown Council currently has no plans to re-issue it.
