peacockblue79 Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 Helloooo everyone. I am new to the forum and I need some help! My mother has a collection of these coins and we have no idea where they are from and what they are. They look like fakes or replicas. I have been painfully searching the web forever to figure it out. Does anyone have any ideas? It would be most helpful =) Oh and its about 2 3/4 inches across and 2 cm. thick if that helps. If you need a pic of the other side I can scan it for you. The year on it is 1871. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigistenz Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 Helloooo everyone. I am new to the forum and I need some help! My mother has a collection of these coins and we have no idea where they are from and what they are. They look like fakes or replicas. I have been painfully searching the web forever to figure it out. Does anyone have any ideas? It would be most helpful =) Oh and its about 2 3/4 inches across and 2 cm. thick if that helps. If you need a pic of the other side I can scan it for you. The year on it is 1871. This is a modern medal (much more recent than 1871) and not a coin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexbq2 Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 Looks like an East German Communist medal with the fathers of communism Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peacockblue79 Posted August 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 This is a modern medal (much more recent than 1871) and not a coin. A medal? Cool, thank you for the info and sorry for bugging you about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savok Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 Helloooo everyone. I am new to the forum and I need some help! My mother has a collection of these coins and we have no idea where they are from and what they are. They look like fakes or replicas. I have been painfully searching the web forever to figure it out. Does anyone have any ideas? It would be most helpful =) Oh and its about 2 3/4 inches across and 2 cm. thick if that helps. If you need a pic of the other side I can scan it for you. The year on it is 1871. It looks like some sort of anniversary medal. They are made to celebrate the most whimsical events. I have a pile of them from my mother-in-law, who is a curator in the Hermitage Museum. They will celebrate the "43rd anniversary of the realization of Putin's dream to join the KGB" and press a bronze medal out of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexbq2 Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 It looks like some sort of anniversary medal. They are made to celebrate the most whimsical events. I have a pile of them from my mother-in-law, who is a curator in the Hermitage Museum. They will celebrate the "43rd anniversary of the realization of Putin's dream to join the KGB" and press a bronze medal out of that. I would say that this is from 1971 - 100th anniversary of the Paris Commune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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