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nulla patria amictae fidei

I tried to translate this in Latin, French and Spanish and German. It seems like it would be Latin since it's on a ribbon that's on a CSA medal. It's got to be some kind of patriot slogan to the Confederacy or South. Also, the "a" and "e" in amictae are joined.

I'm starting to think it's some kind of CSA code for urinate in Grant's whiskey.

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Its not like any latin I have seen but then its been 20+ years since I studied Latin at school...

nulla ? I have no idea
amictae needs some eyes :) amicitiae
which would make the rest 'fatherland friendship faithful'
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'Nulla' would mean something link 'no' or 'none', but in that way the translation would become quite strange:

No fatherland friendship faith/trust
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amictae is indeed the correct spelling.
nulla patria amictae fidei would mean something like 'no fatherland for diguised faith' which would mean that you uoght to show your faith for the fatherland in stead of hiding it.
This may sound a bit cryptic, but I'm from the Netherlands and translating from Latin in Dutch in English is rather difficult. I hope you do understand what I'm trying to say, though.
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G'day, this was discussed in a previous thread:
Confederate Token?
January 2006
no translation was given
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Thanks for the replies everyone. I think Railwayfan may be right or pretty close to it. Everything about this medal is strange. The design on the obverse apparently was a made up design in 1961 rather than an actual CSA era design.

http://www.coincommunity.org/galler...hp?pos=-8912

Notice how the flag is going from right to left. Most images of flags that I've seen are going from left to right. Unless maybe the intent was to be the reversal of the Union flag.
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It is Greek to me.
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I snail-mailed CoinWorld's Readers Ask column by Eric von Klinger asking who was the "Coin of the Month Club." Turns out someone named Merle Thiele of Sioux Falls, S.D started this. He apparently was disgusted with the Mint's policy of not issuing commemorative coins. Even though the policy was Truman's and Ike's.

Railwayfan's interpretation of: "no fatherland for diguised faith" sounds even better now. Maybe it was Merle Thiele's announcment that he was rebelling against the Mint?
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