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Hello Milan, I'm NOT the seller, but somebody who was interested in this medal and I contacted the seller with some questions about the history of this medal. The seller informed me that the medal was the property of an older gentleman who's father had the medal issued to. It was in his son's posession for over 20 years and that his son decided to take it to the jewelry place and have it re-plated. Now that I believe the seller's story, which I have a strong reason to believe it since I bought many items from him before (high priced items as well) and established a trustworthy business relationship with him. I've bought and seen many medals and orders at live auctions, etc... I've never seen a true experienced collector hold a medal of this age and examine it with his naked eye but always with a magnifying glass, this tells you VOLUMES about the reason they do that. Thus, for you to tell a medal is not original by simply looking at picutres of it online (not even good macro pictures at that) is simply unacceptable not only to me but to many reputable collectors. Your thread has been going on for some time now and I wonder how you were the only one who gave this opinion. This as well tells volumes. Please don't ask your forum friends to write their opinions as it's a bit late. Everybody likes to write opinions in forums we all know that and if they agreed with you they would've done so long time ago. My recommendation to you is to ask for macro pictures of the medal at least, if you don't have the chance to hold it in your hand and examine it with your magnifying glass (I assume you have one as an experienced collector). I didn't mean to offend your reputation or anything like that, I was simply being straight forward and truthful. Best Regards, Jeremy F

Milan, I guess you can't explain what you said. "First you have to look at the embossing of the inscriptions, they are not work". Your opinion seems to lack solid proof and explanation and hence your premise seems to be unfortunately not true. This is one of the ways you degrade your reputation, unfortunately.

I know my native language is English but I don't understand at all what you mean by "First you have to look at the embossing of the inscriptions, they are not work"? Also, if you're a true experienced collector, aren't you supposed to have your lense in your hand and look through it at the medal "in your hands" to truly make an opinion about the authenticity of a medal? at least that's how I know evaluations of collectibles are done, anything else is would be he said, she said. Also, what are your crudentials to make such evaluations? any certificates or licenses you may hold to make your opinion stand a bit more firm? I hope you can back up your claim with solid evidence.

Hi Emanuel, It's not the silver version, the silver version looks different. It doesn't have a profile picture of Obrenovich.

You forgot to mention that the medal was made in different versions, some with sharff hallmark some without, some with different diameters than others. What is the diameter of your medal? can you give me info on that? your medal apparently doesn't have the manufacturer's hallmark.