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Please Help Identify This Medal

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 Posted 04/02/2008  10:39 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add myestate to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hello, I bought this medal from a garage sale. Its little bit over an inch. I have no idea where its from. Can someone please help me identify it?

Thank you very much!


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04/02/2008 10:41 pm
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It is a Leopold II(King of Belgium) Jubilee Medal
http://members.tripod.com/tim_gushue/id2.html scroll to the bottom
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Thank you for your help.
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What an odd item to find at a garage sale, if you don't mind me saying so.
That particular character had a rather notorious history, as he's held responsible for 4-8 million deaths in Belgian Congo during his reign of economic exploitation of that colony. (While not about the medal per se, the book I linked to is an eye-opener to a tragedy I never knew).
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