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Old 09-29-2004, 05:55 PM   #11
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Gents,

I don't see any problems with the first document.

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Old 09-30-2004, 07:09 PM   #12
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Matteti,

Thank you for the scans, I agree with Alexei. What really threw me off was the shade of the paper in your first scan.

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Old 12-20-2005, 01:05 AM   #13
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Leningrad medal

Does it offen happen to find such alteration to a medal?
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Old 12-20-2005, 04:39 AM   #14
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It is fortunately not so common, but I've seen a few times this crude job on medals, especially campaign medals.
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Old 12-20-2005, 07:43 AM   #15
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Obviously a crude repair to hang the medal after the ring broke off. I have seen some like this too on other campaign medals.
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Old 12-20-2005, 10:38 AM   #16
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Don't you find the details to be very blurry on the medal surface? Mostly the obverse. To my not-expert opinion , it looks like a copy.
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Old 12-20-2005, 11:09 AM   #17
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I think you could put that down to wear. I can't imagine a forger going to the extra trouble of breaking the ring and drilling a hole...if anything its value may go down..

Just my few pence worth :-)
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Old 04-28-2006, 12:05 PM   #18
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Hello again,
I've been perusing my documents of late and found a Leningrad document with a fully printed "1944" date on it. I've seen them with "1943", "194_" and "19__" but not this one. Mondvor doesn't show an example either.

After doing a google search I *did* find an image of a "1944" document on a rather major dealer's website. Not that that means a great deal.
But I was kind of hoping I had a one-in-a-million, unobserved variant that would have been worth a bazillion dollars. Oh well....:angerr
Now at least I can frame this without having to worry too much.
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Old 04-29-2006, 12:15 AM   #19
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Would one of you Soviet Union historians share some insight on the Soviet Seal with 11 ribbons. When did the last 4 or so republics join the union?

LRE

I answered my own question about the number of ribbons. Info found at:
http://www.fotw.net/FLAGS/su-.html#xron

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Old 05-24-2006, 07:22 PM   #20
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It didn't come out very shiny, so you will have to trust me on that :)

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