Medal "For The Defence Of Leningrad". - Page 2

Nota Bene · 09-29-2004, 05:55 PM

Gents,

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

Alexei

Lapa · 09-30-2004, 07:09 PM

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.

Marc

Soviet · 12-20-2005, 01:05 AM

Does it offen happen to find such alteration to a medal?

Laurent · 12-20-2005, 04:39 AM

It is fortunately not so common, but I've seen a few times this crude job on medals, especially campaign medals.

redmedals · 12-20-2005, 07:43 AM

Obviously a crude repair to hang the medal after the ring broke off. I have seen some like this too on other campaign medals.
Ron

matteti · 12-20-2005, 10:38 AM

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.

medalklector · 12-20-2005, 11:09 AM

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 :-)

EricFG · 04-28-2006, 12:05 PM

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.

order of glory · 04-29-2006, 12:15 AM

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

Nota Bene · 05-24-2006, 07:22 PM

It didn't come out very shiny, so you will have to trust me on that :)

Alexei

12-20-2005, 11:09 AM	#17
medalklector Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: London Posts: 48	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 :-) __________________ "When the man with the rifle gets killed, the man without picks up the rifle and shoots....."

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