New Medals Medallions aquisitions

[Nevol]

Seeing as I currently have 486 Bird Coins, I  don't think a medal would really excite me.

I've got a search list of nearly 100 that I don't have, but haven't actively searched for ages. There are probably thousands of them that I don't know about, especially on NCLT stuff.

[autocoupler]

Picked this up the other day and got a little more than I had bargained for he he, but our 4 year old Grandson is gonna just love it I reckon :yahoo: Oh yeah, and me too :biggrin:. With a mintage of 3,000 they may even hold their own. Oops...a bit big, Woooooooooooooooooooooo





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[trout]

Did you get the Skull ring with that ?

[autocoupler]

No ring damn it heh, but the two small sculls that lock the protector flap in place bring back memories of a prized Phantom split ring found in the school fete lucky dip :angel:

[trout]

I was browsing through eBay and came across this one, It looks interesting and I don't have one of these

[purplepennyhunter]

They were made in silver, bronze and cadmium plated.

[trout]

By the looks of the one I just got it is a Chrome plated version, At least I hope it is because if it is a Silver one it has been polished to death. :angel:

[trout]

By the looks of the one I just got it is a Chrome plated version, At least I hope it is because if it is a Silver one it has been polished to death. :angel:

This medallion arrived today, I am quite pleased with it.
It is the chrome plated version

[markn]

I picked this up last month.  You can read more about it and it's recipient here.

[trout]

Very interesting provenance for that medal Mark :good:
Pretty lousy luck to have survived 11 months of trench warfare only to die from what really shouldn't have been a life threatening wound

[purplepennyhunter]

Something Mark didn't add, a little inappropriate, he ran off a little after his enlistment, married his cousin and his wife and his mother fought over his personal effects after his death.

[markn]

Very interesting provenance for that medal Mark :good:
Pretty lousy luck to have survived 11 months of trench warfare only to die from what really shouldn't have been a life threatening wound

If you read the Red Cross witness statements to his death it looks like it wasn't a gun shot at all.  But rather shrapnel from a HE shell that has penetrated his abdomen.

[trout]

Ouch that is pretty nasty

[trout]

http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=278695

[markn]

Not exactly a medallion but not really a coin either.  Improvised ID disc from a WW1 AIF soldier.  You can read about the man here