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Another posthumous Red Banner for private ...

Both volumes can be found here (HQ scans of pages)

http://www.afgan.ru/memoryafgan/

Presentation of the material

Volume I

Volume II

An exellent source of info about posthumous awardings is two volume

Book of memory of Soviet soldiers killed in Afghanistan

published in 1995 (volume I) and in 1999 (Volume II) by Ministry of Defence of RF.

Keep us posted on the final price.

The group in posts # 40-44 is still not sold.

But "buy it now" price was lowered to 58 k`s ...

Medal For Merit to the Fatherland 2nd class made by CпМД

It looks like St.Petersburg mint is also busy with manufacturing miniatures

Order for military merit and Medal of Suvorov made by CпМД

Get thee out "evil price raises"!

I don't know, this mysterious Sutherbies sounds like a real deal

True (and tragic) story of unexpected price increase

Friend of mine asked seller about her reasons and that was the answer he received.

"I was told by a large collector that these are the holy grail in medals and i should raise price or send to a house like sutherbies so i based price on other rare ones i sold"

Another good Samaritan

On the other hand - new variation.

Kinda

By the way, I don`t recommend to pick at these ...

Otherwise

China incident was relisted with the following comment from our boy elfard

"先日落札された品ですが、落札者の都合によりキャンセルとなりましたので再出品します。昭和十七年に制定された記念章です"

Poor guy!

Dave, pm was sent ;)

Jersey girls ...

Starting bid was changed to $15.000!

Ingenious tactic!

Interesting

Reverse

Red enamel looks really nice!

Same story with this 5th class