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At the end of the First Schleswig War there was made a series of 6 medals honoring Danish Generals. They was made by the Birmingham based company Allen & Moore around 1850. If someone has a reference to any of these medals (except Bergsøe) I would be very happy.

The first one is of Schleppegrell:

A Merry Christmas to all and a Happy New Year !

Hope you all can add new nice pieces to your collection in 2016.

Congratulations !!! Looks like a first prize

In a old book I am reading, from 1822, they use the expression "London Sterling". Is this the same as Pound Sterling or is there another explanation?

Thanks for sharing. Very interesting.

And what a quality!!!

As ccg says; these are made of zinc which is an low cost metal. The price for these are also so low that forgery is out of the question. According to SIEGs catalogue the value og each is between 0,5 and 1 Euro in grade 1+ (Very Fine/Bellissimo).

They were actually minted three places; Copenhagen and Altona i Denmark and Kongsberg in Norway.

There are som excellent pages here: http://www.steppeulvene.com/index.1771_skilling.html

They are in Danish, but I guess you will understand most of it.

Thanks for the links.

I also found a picture of Bramsen 1287 in a catalogue:

So there are for sure two versions. Maybe of the whole series?

If anyone has a catalogue reference to the "new" version I would be very happy.

A few days a came across this medal:

As far as I can see it is Bramsen 1287. But Bramsen 1287 is part of the series of Siegespfennig made by Loos in connection with the War of the Sixth Coalition (1812-1814). They should all have the same adverse, namely Bramsen 1225. The adverse of this series look like:

Did Loos make Bramsen 1287 with a different adverse or is this not Bramsen 1287?

Maybe a question for constanius??

Welcome to Coin People.

Beautiful pictures. I love the colors and the light.

I am afraid I soon is a collector of these medals (also). Thanks for sharing constanius.

A new version:

http://www.coinforums.com/world-ancient-coins/1593-napoleonic-token.html

Happy Birthday!!! Hope you have a magical day!

So my question to you. If someone were to give you something like that. Say your grandfather. Would it be special to you and would you keep it as a memento of that person?

Thats pretty much how I started collecting. My grandmother worked in a bank and bought old coins for face value which she gave to me. This started when I was 7 or 8 years old. I then collected until I was about 18, when other interests took over. But later when the kids grew up I found the old collection and started up again. However the coin prices had risen tremendously since I last collected. So after a few years I sold most of the coins and started collecting medals.

I just kept a few special coins as a memory of my grandmother.

So the conclusion is go ahead, maybe you even make one of them a collector. What can you lose?

Wonderful! Very nice medals.

And the story goes on.

The first medal you show, which is Bramsen 1415, is made by Thomas Kettle. Kettle also made another medal with the same reverse dies. On the adverse there is a portrait of Emperor Alexander with the legend "ALEXANDER EMP. OF ALL THE RUSSIAS".

Bramsen 1371:

http://www.napoleonicmedals.org/coins/bhm-797.htm

That one was actually new for me. Nice! I will look it up in Bramsen on Monday.

This is the Order of the Red Star, established in 1930. It was awarded more than 3,8 million times so it is rather common. The number on the reverse makes it possible to find out who the receiver of the actual medal was.

You will fins a lot of info if you google "Order of the Red Star".