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Pillar of the Community
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Bought this thing from HA.com but have no idea if its a Modern or later date commemorative medals.   It comes in a 15" by 19" frame. Thanks |
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The paper is the Certificate of Authenticity. The coins apparently commemorate The House of Romanovs, the Russian Emperors. If you can, post better pics, so that we'd be able to tell more.
(My dad helped me with this, he's Russian.)
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If it's commemorating the imperial family, it would have to be post-Soviet. Things had lightened up by the 80s and 90s, but the Soviets were not especially fond of the old royalty, and certainly would not honor them on coins or medals.
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I have not received the package thus using the site pictures.
So it is most likely a Modern replica? Another thing I was wanting to find out was the composition of the metals.
Thanks for the help.
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I can read and speak Russian, but can't read anything that blurry  I might be of help if the pictures were more legible. |
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United States
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Top to bottom:
line 1: Certificate of authenticity
line 2: something along the lines of "Collectible numismatic issue of coin-like articles"
line 3: History of Russian State
line 4: House of Romanoff (heck if I know what the proper spelling of the last name is, but it is about the last line of tzars)
lines ##: listing of all items, with the top three being some sort of coat of arms followed by emperors and empresses
then it goes into specs, which are hard to read, but to the best of my eagle-eye ability...
Material is brass. Proof quality. Minted by Saint Petersburg Mint. Mintage of 500. No info on the date, but looks modern.
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Thanks Moonrock and everyone who has helped. That pretty much answered everything I needed to know.
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Their list of Romanov rulers is weird too: they have Constantine I, who didn't even rule, and Catherine II, who didn't have any Romanov ancestry, but these two and Peter I are the only ones they list before Nicholas I (no Alexander I, no Paul I, no Elizabeth, no Alexey Mikhailovich...)
And yes, MoonRock is basically correct in the reading (including the "coin-line articles" part, sadly - they aren't even calling these things "medals"). Though I'm reading two compositions here - a specific type of brass (apparently for the rings of the bimetallic pieces), and some kind of white metal called MH-25 (or MN-25).
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january1may, good point on brass being not the only metal used. I could not read the text, but should have at least mentioned that there is something else written...
Manganese? It's atomic number is 25, but I have no clue if it is used in coinage at all.
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