I'll defer to the real experts here but would like to add two points.
1. My example is stamped Firmin London to the rear and has fairly long or prominent lugs to the reverse.
2. When in Salisbury (Harare) in 1981 I bought a mounted set of Rhodesian Army badges. All have a flat or poor quality reverse and all had the short stubby type of lugs as in your image.
I had originally thought that my (1981) set was genuine unissued material but I have since heard that they were stamped out for the souvenir trade, currency being much needed at that time.
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