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front of RB2 SN 54

Red Banner 2 with relatively low SN 54

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Two Labor Heroes for your viewing pleasure

This one went for about $400

Another Hearder, SN 377

Extra low serial number 3!!!!

Just sold for around $700 William

Front view

Just sold in Russia for around $2,500 (58,300 Roubles). Note interesting serial number - 777!

Fascinating! How did they bestow an award to the tree - by actually attaching it to the tree itself? I would assume that a Personal File for the heroic tree was also created in military headquarters. They would have to come up with the name for the tree as well... William

Nice doc and badge!

Ed, very nice group for a fighter pilot - Nevsky, 2 OPWs, Red Banner, Red Stars, Belgrade medal Thanks for sharing it with us! The wait was worth it! William

Nice medal, fairly common though. Can you post pics of the document? William

inside the doc

Award for MEDAL FOR DISTINGUISHED STATE AND CIVIL SERVICES TEXT OF THE DOCUMENT: MOTIVATION AS A MEMBER OF DEMOCRATIC FRONT ORGANISATION (COMMUNIST MASSES ORGANIZATION) HAS BEEN DISTINGUISHED IN THE HELP GIVEN IN FULFILING TASKS REGARDING THE PARLAMENTARY ELECTIONS. GIVEN BY THE PRESIDIUM OF PEOPLES REPRESENTATIVES (PARLIAMENT) William

Ed, Thank you for great examples of PDRA awards! How common are these awards? Are there any known fakes? How are the prices? Igor has some on his site, but his prices look steep. William

If I were you I would post the pics of N Korean order here before buying. I never heard of 1st type pin-back. What you were offered could be modified award. William

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here's one from 1954

This is just great, a dealer priced awards at the levels he was comfortable paying. No wonder sale prices are so low. This guy should be prosecuted and punished for cheating Mongolian bank. The least they can do is to make him pay additional sum for purchase price, I am sure with the profits he made it will not hyrt him if he paid double of original price. But keeping in mind results of privatization sales in former socialist counries (I recently read that proceeds from privatization sales in Russia during 90s were around pitiful $30 billion - that's for thousands of enterprises, inlcuding natural resources such as oil, gas, metals, etc) - Mongolians did well. William

Hi, Prices you are listing are good deals, you can ceratinly sell the medals for more if you want to. Overall medals are not that scrace, most can be found within reasonable period of time. Rarer ones are Czech orders (especially 1950 type) and document for Bulgarian Partizan Star. William

I understand that some of us place great importance on research and are very excited about pissibility of Mongolian awards being researchable, but I think we should scale down our expectations. First, not all research is the same. You can get citation for long service, which I suspect will be typical for many Red Banners. To me such citation is not interesting at all (as compared to citations for some heroic deed), I would consider it waste of money and it's not very far from being un-issued award. Second, some Mongolian awards may never be researchable due to various reasons, like most of NKVD and labor awards in Soviet system. What do you do with such awards then? Sell them as scrap metal? William

Rick, If you ever come accross any non-awarded orders - send them my way. I'll be happy to pay you more than scrap value On the serious note - there's always will be market for un-awarded medals. There are many collectors out there who never ordered a piece of research. Going by your logic - anything exept Soviet serial numbered awards should be selling for slightly more than scrap value. Let's see - value of silver in German Knight Cross is about $40 - how come they do cost close to $10,000 these days? Or Russian Horde EK1, or recent batch of mint Deshler KVK1 - why do they go for a lot more than issued salty pieces? William

Ed, How much were they selling for? Just curious... William