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Pillar of the Community
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please help identifying  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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This is not a coin, but a medal of some sort.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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thank you,this what I thought,maybe somebody have little more information?
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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A Wikipedia search should provide all that you would wish to know about
Patrice LUMBUMBA and Joseph KASAVUBU and the
Democratic Republic of The Congo.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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i got nothing from wikipedia
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
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I find it a bit strange to find those 3 persons on the same medal, as they were not particularly friends. Patrice Lumumba was the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, while Joseph Kasavubu was the first president. As there were many troubles immediately after independence, Kasavubu held Lumumba responsible and sent him away, while Lumumba did the same thing with Kasavubu. To restore the order, Mobutu seized power by a coup, thus "neutralising" the 2 others. Lumumba was assasinated not much later, while Kasavubu became president again. After Mobutu seized power for the second time in 1965, he stayed in function until 1997. He renamed the Democratic Republic of Congo into Republic of Zaïre in 1971, a name the country kept until the resigning of Mobutu in 1997, when it got its old name again.
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United States
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I just spent 30 mins looking for this got nothing.
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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thank you guys for all responses ,i just wanna know more about this medal,not about who is on it
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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The "about" with medals usually has a lot to do with what is depicted on them.
Other than that, I can only answer the "about" in a reather generic sense.
Medals can be issued by almost anyone. Usually a design is commissioned by a sponsor (that can be a government, a social or sporting club, a business or an individual) then a contract issued for it's production. How and under what authority it may be issued can also vary greatly.
My supposition is that the medal under discussion here may have been issued by a quasi government authority of the Congo.
The subject matter and the fabric of the medal suggest that view to me.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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thank you sel691, you right,but I mean I know who is on medal ,but need just more info ,because I got 3 same medals and now I don't know what I have to do with this staff
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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still waiting for experts,My research give nothing  |
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
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Sorry, I googled the whole world 4 times, but... nothing!
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United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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still waiting |
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United States
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I have seen this before....
As I remember they are a non-official, non- Zaire product. I think it was part of a private mint marketed as "official non-circulating" coinage from small nations and islands. You knew you had been up too long when their ads came on the TV.
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