Fake Medals "For Bravery"

[Lapa]

LOLOL, Woyko to the rescue. For me the suspension or booklet are not important-just the medalion. For T1 Var 3, the digits look ok I checked them with my other bm #'s and in the Desantnik Digest. they appear fine just perhaps that pardoon may have been a bit off when he stamped them. Perhaps a rookie stamper or did Ivan have a fight with Marysha that day which impeded his concentration? :D

See da pic below. Ok, the 7 looks off but how many perfectly stamped serial numbers on BM's are perfect? How's the patina on this one. It was a concern also.

:D

Norm,

Marysha, Natasha or Olya did not have anything to do with the stamping; the punches themselves are WRONG. In other terms, you are most likely holding in your hands a genuine T3 from which the original struck ring was removed and replaced by a weird-looking one, on which a fake SN was punched, and half a gallon of premium Patina-in-a-Bottle™ was poured :cool:

Marc