09-27-2013, 02:30 AM
I'm not sure you fully understood my point I will try to make it simpler.
The "Medal" exists - it is a physical object, we can see it. The "Medal" being an "Award" of the state or produced by the state has not been proven.
At this time I doubt any magical "secret document" from the former Soviet archives will turn up stating that they officially awarded these.
Even if we see video footage of the recipient receiving the Golden Medal it does not mean that it was the awarded Medal as it may have been substituted prior to issue. If that did happen those that received it may believe it was some sort of special gift from the state rather than a localised anomaly.
Would I buy a Golden one? No, unless part of a documented group at no extra cost to a "normal" one.
This may be an issue that splits the phalerists from the numismatists.
The "Medal" exists - it is a physical object, we can see it. The "Medal" being an "Award" of the state or produced by the state has not been proven.
At this time I doubt any magical "secret document" from the former Soviet archives will turn up stating that they officially awarded these.
Even if we see video footage of the recipient receiving the Golden Medal it does not mean that it was the awarded Medal as it may have been substituted prior to issue. If that did happen those that received it may believe it was some sort of special gift from the state rather than a localised anomaly.
Would I buy a Golden one? No, unless part of a documented group at no extra cost to a "normal" one.
This may be an issue that splits the phalerists from the numismatists.
"Signed with his own rubber stamp"
