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    fjcp

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    1. "Nalaikh" means to be quiet,calm or at peace....

      "Jil" means years....so 10 or 40 years or something... but I haven't found the badge yet.....

      It's a NIB but I get the feeling it might have a buddhist relationship in some way... the at peace bit with the Book at the bottom...

      Anyway it's a theory...

      Cheers

      JC

    2. Well, it finally came in...

      I managed to find a first type, 9 year long service medal!

      Thanks to James for the proper identification of this medal!

      Anyway some good pictures that show a lot more detail than in the ones we had...

      This has a replacement ribbon for sure, but the medal shows nice signs of age.

      Enjoy!

      JC

      ps. This is the same medal posted in the other thread mentioned by Ed.

    3. So I went to a Sushi place with the wife today, and is usually the case in Toronto, it was run by people other than the Japanese.

      I had with me a printout of the reverse of this medal and I thought what the hell let me ask the nice Chinese lady if she can read the characters...

      Well it took no time at all, as these are rather common characters... It was funny to see how excited she got. This is a rather nice establishment but she insisted on passing it around and gave me several pronounciations for the characters. In Mandarin and Cantonese....

      She suggested that Mandarin would be the language of choice given its origins.

      So here is the translation and the pronunciation of the four characters from the top one down.

      "Qin" which can mean hard working or hard studying

      "Jin" Respect

      "Zhong" The "Zh" is a hard sound, not the buzzing sound like we have in English and it means Loyalty

      "Cheng" Sincerity

      Not the answer I was hoping for but still interesting..

      Cheers

      JC

    4. HI there,

      This should be categorised under the "Z" section in Dr.B's book.

      It is more of a district badge than a province badge but I think it qualifies.

      The slogan at the top reads something like,

      "Communism for the sake of unity" or something to that effect,

      and the bottom says the "Khaliun district" which is to be found in the Gobi-Altai province.

      Hope that helped!

      Cheers

      JC

    5. 2398 Badge ?To the honorary employee of Government Security of Mongolia?. Award #

      5 (!!). Silver. Hallmarked (916). Maker?s mark. Screwback. Quality multi-piece

      construction with magnificent multi-color enamels. Hallmarked. Engraved serial number

      and ? on reverse. Original silver nut. Shows minor signs of wear, tiny enamel chips.

      Good vintage condition otherwise. Rare an of the high interest with so low number ---> 1000 USD excl markup etc

      2475 Order of Sukhbaatar. Type 2. Award # 1685. Gold and silver. Pinback type. Multi-piece

      construction, multi-color enamels. Batt 20-b $ 1,250 ---> 2000 USD excl markup etc

      Not very outrageous

      So when should I expect an email from Mr.Markov????

      I've heared nothing so far and by the looks of it I should have won several pieces including the #5 D03....

      weird...

      JC

    6. An interesting article with a nice, although small pic of the Druk Thuksey medal. I think it hasn't been shown although it has been mentioned!

      JC

      article

    7. When I compare SB prices (remember... 2000 of them) vs. Soyombo (e.g. 10k on collect russia, low number of only 400 or so) and am assuming that SB prices are "appropriate" (after all, we can track over last 2-3 years the gradual increase), I'm left thinking that Soyombo's will soon rocket to well over 20k. Don't even want to start thinking about what a regular Hero Star will go for...

      I don't know about those Soyombo prices though Bob.. That one on collectrussia hasn't gone anywhere in a month or so and with the current financial issues who knows.

      There has to be a limit to what people will pay for these things, Rare they are, but how many dedicated Mongolian collectors are out there?

      A handfull perhaps

      Makes me getting one seem less likely though!!

      Cheers

      JC

    8. Theres a HERO STAR in that auction :speechless1::jumping:

      You think they'll take my car in trade for the hero???

      No???,didn't think so either.........!!!!

      Bob you started a thread a while back about a certain dagger that sold on ebay........ Well guess what it's up for sale in this sale!!!

      I got screwed, big time!! That'll teach me for paying with a moneyorder!!

      Great looking auction!!

    9. Hi. What do you mean. On my opinion - absolutely normal and original ribbon bar. Also i cant show it right know (i have big remont works in my flat) but i have some documents for this medal group...... :cheers:

      Well, here is the thing.... It appears that two medals have ink on them... this happens, and it may be nothing but why doesn't the oldest medal have it also?

      Anyway it's just a theory and anything is possible but it seems likely to me that the oldest would have it too.

      I didn't know the man, perhaps he liked to play with his medals and one day he spilled ink on them and just managed to save the 1904-5 medal from getting hit.

      Who knows....

      JC

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