For your consideration

[James Hoard]

It's something that concerns me - if it LOOKS like a medal, it needs to recorded correctly so that future observers know what they are looking at. I have a (much-neglected) section on my site for such items, suppose I'd better set up a section for organisational awards as well - many of these are nationally-based (the French & the Belgiums seem particularly fond of 'em) so these may be best placed as clearly-demarked subsections of national sections.

A very good point indeed.

The poor young chap starting out on a medal collecting hobby could easily be fooled. Especially since some of the ribbons, particularly those by UK manufacturers, closely ghost those of official awards.

Personally, I do not like the terminology because there are official commemorative medals and there is always a chance of confusion. They should be called unofficial tokens, pseudo medals or something else.

James