GlennC

I think the same person pictured in Dr. Batushing book.

There is a color picture of him, all his RCB orders have blu enamel.

I have documents but not for this orders. As far as I know this order never being issued. They have being sold by Central Bank of Mongolia as leftovers from communist era.

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Document for 1960 smooth reverse badge.

Document for 1960 smooth reverse badge.

I have in my collection

J 02b - Type 2.1 (Mongol legend, mirror reverse) #3388, 3422, 3470 S/N at 8 o'clock.

Hi Ed,

We already discussed this badge:

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=5236

In my collection I have:

Brosnz badge# 296

Silver badges# 206, 958, 2418

Badge with gold hammer# 4757

Am I losing my sanity??

(OK, don't answer THAT.)

Evereything we know, everything I have read, tells us that these things were issued with no number, "2", "3", and "4". Awards through "4". Fair enough.

BUT: In evidence, the famous Choibalsan photo (Battushig p. 20). Unless I cannot count (as I tell my students, there are three kinds of historians, those who can count and those who can't), I count five (5!) OCRBs. Now, I do not see any numbers on any of them. We all know Choibalsan was, well, er, "special", but . . . ???

What a nice belt

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I have one to, with lowest known number

I have one to, with lowest known number