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I wrote about it in another topic on GMIC, here's what I meant. This is the Bravery Medal, but it's the same with that decoration. One more thing, the suspension ring is "connected" on the Soviet pieces while on the Yugoslav ones you can see the small "gap".

Soviet type is made out of two pentagonal metal plates while Yugoslav is made out of single one. When you take a look at the back side you can see two rivets on the Soviet ones, they are on the sides, close to the needle.

I just remembered I wrote about the total number of the Soviet made Bravery Orders on other forum. According to Rudež Soviets made 25.750 pieces. When it comes to those Yugo made ones with Soviet suspensions, so far I've seen them in 38K-50K range.

You're welcome. Unfortunately I'm on vacation so I can't give you precise numbers now, as soon as I get back I'll check Rudež's book and let you know. Number of made ones is certainly larger than of awarded. I read somewhere that some of the unawarded Soviet pieces were melted and the material was used for the production of the Yugo type. Those orders have Soviet pentagonal metal ''suspensions''. The highest number on the Soviet type I've seen so far was 15XXX. I think numbers on Yugo type start from 10K.

Don't mention it, a lot more information can be found HERE. Unfortunately some photos are not visible since the last forum upgrade but you can open them "manually" - just copy the link (example: http://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly....jpg) into your browser's search bar and press enter

Even though some FRY decorations looked the same as SFRY ones that's not the case with the Bravery Order, it looked completely different. Here's an example posthumously awarded to Zoran Radosavljević (I can't remember where have I found this image).

One more with the same characteristics.

Speaking of Bravery orders has anyone seen this variation before? They started appearing just recently, at least I didn't notice them before. They look like Type 2.5 but have huge numbers (500K!) on the back side and that pentagonal metal piece that holds the ribbon isn't gilded, but strangely enough the needle is. They were not being offered as some RRR variant nor was their price any higher than of the regular orders.

Excellent, thanks!

Very nice, thanks for sharing! Any chance of seeing back sides?

New book!

Just as I thought Thanks, Nick!

I wasn't thinking about Croatia in particular, some of our neighbors have far worse looking decorations, don't want to offend anyone so I won't mention any names

Here's one more LINK Are these badges so common or is it something else?

Here's one more, looks like the seller copied text from this topic in his description. LINK

Unfortunately that's the case with most of the modern era decorations. Still, compared with orders of some other ex-Yu republics looks pretty decent.

Order of Sretenje 2nd Class awarded to the National Library of Serbia in 2013 for 180 years of existence.

A better photo.

Order of the Yugoslav Star 2nd class, Belorussian lieutenant general Nikolai Cherginets (Мікала́й Чаргіне́ц).

Very nice! I especially like the right one, unknown producer?

I was going through some old topics and stumbled upon this one, I completely forgot about it. That "Association of recipients of the Albanian retreat medal miniature" was actually issued by the Association for Preserving the Traditions of the Serbian Liberation Wars Until 1918 in 1975. Article by S. Radan, R. Mandić and N. Bjeloš published in Serbian magazine Dinar.

First & second class badges and lower classes are not problematic, but stars are sometimes difficult to read, at least I'm not always sure which is which

One more photo from B. Bogdanović's article published in Politikin magazin.

I think Ludwig Wilhelm's dagger is from the Belgrade Military Museum, here's a photo from their website.

Don't mention it, Ulric. Here's a link to their website in case someone decides to visit it: https://www.muzejvojvodine.org.rs/index.php/eng/