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EricFG · 07-12-2010, 12:08 PM

11? Really? Coolio. Care to share? :)

ph3s · 07-16-2010, 11:41 AM

I got it as a bonus to other medals I bought.
Just thought it might be interesting. Same story as with Berlin one, looks like cooper and the digits on the reverse :confused:

Lapa · 07-16-2010, 01:39 PM

ph3s,

Your medal is OK, it just had a tough life. As to the number on it, there is no definite explanation; it is supposed that these correspond to the SN of the award document.

Marc

deValcourt · 07-17-2010, 12:17 AM

Lapa Wrote:ph3s,

Your medal is OK, it just had a tough life. As to the number on it, there is no definite explanation; it is supposed that these correspond to the SN of the award document.

Marc

Marc, I've heard that explanation here and on Mondvor, but no one ever said just who did the stamping of the numbers. (I've also seen them on the outer rim of the medal itself).

Phillip

ph3s · 07-17-2010, 09:16 AM

Quote:Your medal is OK, it just had a tough life.

well then, I'll give it good home now.

Quote:but no one ever said just who did the stamping of the numbers.

It's difficult to say, no info, some say it's been done locally on regiments, some by veterans themselves. The fakt is you can see numbers mostly on early medals and mostly Moscow, Leningrad, Caucasus

Lapa · 07-17-2010, 10:09 AM

One credible version is that the numbers were stamped when a veteran gave his medals to be mounted on a multi-medal suspension, so as not to mix up medals between recipients.

Marc

deValcourt · 07-17-2010, 02:23 PM

Lapa Wrote:One credible version is that the numbers were stamped when a veteran gave his medals to be mounted on a multi-medal suspension, so as not to mix up medals between recipients.

Marc

The simplest answers are often the right ones in a world of Russian practicality and pride of ownership over the medals he or she won - and rightly so.:thumbsup

Phillip