Although I agree that the star COULD be unissued, I can't understand why it would specifically need to be with this very Order of Lenin. It sounds strange to me that they would "assign" a Lenin to an unissued Gold Star in storage somewhere without issuing them. Now, if anybody had researched that specific Order of Lenin and it came back with a "unissued" result, I could live with that, but until then, I think it is a made up "set".
Eric, any chance to get a good scan of the small HSU document (front and back). If they now fake them well, we are in deep s...
I suppose it's possible that a HSU star could be unissued, but how do they know that it comes with THIS lenin. They didn't make them in sets at the mint, or gift-wraped them together. Would love to see a better picture of that Star, I am not totally convinced it's genuine.
