01-09-2008, 10:47 PM
desantnik Wrote:I don't understand what you're trying to say/ask.
Yes, early awards are rare. Yes, many people died. What's your point/questons?
i think he is trying to say that because the person who (for example) was awarded a medal with the serial number 1 was likely to be executed, imprisoned, excommunicated etc and have their award taken away that the odds of us suddenly finding some shockingly new low number item is decreasing all the time.
his 1% argument makes some sense in terms of: if there was a million man army, and 90% were dead imprisoned etc, that leaves 10,000 soldiers alive who took care of their medals etc, what are the odds that those 10,000 were the ones who got awarded really low serial numbers. another way of looking at it is like this. if you have an award, with serial numbers spanning 1-1 million. and every person in the army received it at random (i.e. there is no order to who got the SN 1 and who got the SN 1 million) and wore it in battle or during troop movements etc, what is the odd that you will find the number one? ALOT less than 1 in 1 million.
i might agree with him actually, i am still on the fence as to whether lower serial numbers will be found...:confused::confused:
