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Help Identify A Long And Efficient Service Medal

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Any information regarding this 35-year long service medal will be apprecaited. Diameter 57mm, Thickness: 5mm, Weight: 106g. Possibly .900 or .925 silver. My guess is that it was awarded to a public servant who had worked at the Hill.
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12/05/2013 1:33 pm
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 Posted 12/05/2013  11:09 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TwoCentsWorth to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Was the blocked out area the name of an individual?
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 Posted 12/05/2013  11:18 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Amaths to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Yeap. The name and the dates below were engraved.

Does this piece look like a work of the RCM?
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 Posted 12/05/2013  12:12 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add silverwolf to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
using the Queen's effigy, I would say yes the mint did it.
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 Posted 12/05/2013  12:18 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add artdio to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Not 100% sure but I would think this was given to an employee for maybe 25 years of service.. It should be sterling silver
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 Posted 12/05/2013  1:35 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Amaths to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Sorry for the poor pics. The engraved dates were 1954-1989. Do people still work at one place for 35 years nowadays?
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 Posted 12/05/2013  1:45 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add chequer to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Here's one that sold for $60

http://www.icollector.com/Governmen...al_i17235624

And one that was discussed a couple years ago here:

https://goccf.com/t/82522
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Thanks chequer! 45 years is impressive! I also like the French version.
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 Posted 12/05/2013  3:17 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add matthewvincent to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Or,
given the Parliament tower perhaps a member of that august body?
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Do people still work at one place for 35 years nowadays?


Plenty of lifers work in this town. I worked with a guy who had been at the same place (though not gov't) for 44 years and that wasn't even 'the office record'.

Cool medallion. I wonder how many years one had to put in to get one, and if they still award them today.
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I may hav 32 years with Government in 2017.......At 25 years I was happy to get a Clock---could hav got a ring with 50cent piece on top looked good but that was my 2nd choiice...That medal I would agree is for 35 years service---although I am totaly unfamiliar with it....I agree it is nice....good job....If not 35 service then may 15 or 20 as a member of House...Commons...... I would definitely say they do not give them out today and not even a decade ago either.......
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