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Mystery Coin, Medal Or Token | Japanese Red Cross Medal

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 Posted 12/08/2011  6:39 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Mitra to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I've had this "coin" for many many years and have not had any luck at all identifying it. I have checked the Standard Catalog of World Coins and can not find anything close.
Any help would be very much appreciated.

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Mystery-Coin,-Medal-Or-Token-|-Japanese-Red-Cross-Medal

Identified - moved to Medals forum - Sap
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 Posted 12/08/2011  6:47 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add rachums107 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Looks like an Asian medal of some kind. Sap will know.
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 Posted 12/08/2011  8:19 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Sap knows, but only because someone posted one of these here on the forum some time ago. It's a Japanese Red Cross medal, dating from before WWII. It would originally have had a loop and red-and-white ribbon attached. The medal bears a date, "Meiji 21", which I believe equates to the founding of the Japanese Red Cross Society in 1887. The bottom pic is upside-down.

Do a Google picture search and you'll find lots of examples of similar medals, both these older silver types and the modern aluminium equivalents.
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Thank you so much Sap! Running the search now :D
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 Posted 12/13/2011  4:59 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add JadeSpear to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Meiji year 12....hence 1887.
Funny 'sap' noticed the reverse being upside down. I was just about to comment on that.
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