This will be my first post to this wonderfull site... I'm visiting this site already for quite a long time and thought that it would be time to register myself.. As a collector of belgian medals, my mouth goes watering of all those wonderfull medals.... From a fellow I got those pictures, this medal had been found in a junk-shop... complete with box.... bought for a very low price.... Junk or real?? Give me your 2 cents.. I myself consider this a quite ugly example... The gold laurels around the cross are upside down... The cross and the laurels are glued on something and than that something is glued on the breast-star. This can be observed between the cross and the laurels, normaliter one would be able to see the silver rays between the cross, but in this particular case, only the wavy gold disc can be seen.... At last, it's also ugly because of the bi-lingual center-disc No matter with the dutch language, as I'm dutch too, but I do consider the higher quality, pre 1951 thus mono-lingual, more preferable...... And french always sounds sexier on those medals Will add more images in next post... Couldn't attach a higher resolution on this post, it keeps on going crazy with me Kind Regards.