Guest rnsdb Posted September 14, 2012 Report Share Posted September 14, 2012 Are there any collectors of medals, orders, and badges that know answers to the following: 1. Do patterns exist for the above as they do for coins that would warrant a separate classification filter code in the medals database? 2. Do novodels exist? Or is the better term restrike, eg Peter I 19th century restrikes of originals or is a novodel from original dies and a restrike from new dies? 3. Are there many forgeries of originals or novodel/restrikes? I'm going to put the medals test database up for download next week and I need to know whether to build in a filter for patterns and novodel/restikes and if there's a need for an ability to compare originals with forgeries. Ron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-kuna Posted September 14, 2012 Report Share Posted September 14, 2012 as i know most of them are forgeries Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BKB Posted September 14, 2012 Report Share Posted September 14, 2012 Are there any collectors of medals, orders, and badges that know answers to the following: 1. Do patterns exist for the above as they do for coins that would warrant a separate classification code? 2. Do novodels exist? Or is the better term restrike, eg Peter I 19th century restrikes of originals 3. Are there any or many forgeries of originals or novodel/restrikes? I'm going to put the medals test database up for download next week and I need to know whether to build in a filter for patterns and an ability to compare originals with forgeries. Ron 1. To the first question I would like to get the answer myself. However, I personally never came across something like that even mentioned... 2 -- yes. There are novodels (in the very least) struck with new dies prepared by another engraver. I believe there were also restrikes with original dies in different metal. I read something about it. If it was also done in same metal is hard to tell -- after all there is no edge design... 3 -- most medals on ebay right now are fakes. There are even medals in gold sold at auctions people believe are fakes... I think it would be beneficial to consult catalogs (there are excellent works on russian medals) Diakov, Bitkin... There has to be some info you are looking for in those books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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