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The National Foundation Merit Medal
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Let`s carry on! Official medals
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It has only one kanji (on obverse). It is 勤 - attendance/hard-working. It looks like slightly modified second class badge Obverses
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But we have another badge (from the same russian museum) that is undescribed in our chart, but obviously blood-related to these two badges. Check it out Obverse
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Reverse reads 勤勞章 where 勤勞 - diligent/hard -working 章 - badge
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So where were we? Aha, yes - these labour badges. According to the chart both badges were established on October 11, Kang Teh 10 [1943]. The reverse of the second class badge (or simply lower class badge) reads 勤勞有功章 Where 勤勞 -diligent/hard -working 有功 - active 章 - badge Time to take a look at second class (lower class) badge Thanks for the scans David!
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Come on guys! All Russians are Saints! P.S. Another scenario - the buyer was ready to pay, but wasn't ready to mark the real value on the package... Guess he missed this "will be unable to falsify customs forms" promise of the seller.
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Pushkin Museum of Art has less than 20% of its holding on display at any given moment
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Great expectations! I tell you, this corporation will suck you dry ;)
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Exactly! The ball is with you Chris!
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"He helped finance, among many other things, the Japanese military efforts against Tsarist Russia in the Russo-Japanese War." This explains his interest in japanese medals and orders
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Of course they are stored in the deposits ... Who needs them when there are "Rembrandt's" all over the place
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Hellseher :lol:
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Have no idea! But these two gave all their japanese medals to the Metropolitan museum as a gift back in 1906
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Don't be shy! Please give us all the numbers that this super book has
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Bä! I don't like this version at all!
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Mein Namensbruder :whistle:
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Just re-read your post ... "Durchschnittsmensch" ... :lol:
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As far as I remember a japanese colleague of mine found this number in the japanese archives So the 1974 "100 years of Mint History" states that there were only 18 in gold, 2251 pieces in silver??! Amazingly low number of silver medals!!! Any other numbers? Like for the "wedding", war medals, enthronement medals, etc... :)
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Thanks guys And big thanks goes to our Scottish colleagues who made the creation of this thread possible
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Yep. M (i.e. "hee") stands for Osaka 1000 stands for silver Bet you are happy that there are no "sterling" marks around
