1911 / 1917 Mexico - USMC Marines "For Service" medal - information needed

ZoidMeister

1911 / 1917 Mexico - USMC Marines "For Service" medal

I've been trying to research and find out more information on this USMC service medal. It's dated 1911-1917 and denoted for service in "Mexico." It's unusually thick, coming in at 3.5mm. Kind of a "piedfort" planchet.

I don't usually run across Armed Forces strikes, so when this one came up on my radar, I had to pick it up.

Anyone know where I can get additional information on it?

Thanks in advance.

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ricko

I have not seen that one before. Nice memorabilia for militaria collectors. Cheers, RickO

streeter

Go to:
U.S. militaria forum

Usmilitariaforum.com

coinsarefun

This is pretty cool looking. I like the water depiction. It also looks double struck or clashed die.

ZoidMeister

@coinsarefun said:
This is pretty cool looking. I like the water depiction. It also looks double struck or clashed die.

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I'm tending towards double struck as I'm not seeing anything on the obverse that would imprint a clash like that.

I need to check a couple other similar pieces I have seen to see if possibly the reverse may be a clash from an alternate obverse.

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ZoidMeister

@streeter said:
Go to:
U.S. militaria forum

Usmilitariaforum.com

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Many thanks for the reference . . . . !

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ZoidMeister

@coinsarefun said:
This is pretty cool looking. I like the water depiction. It also looks double struck or clashed die.

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Steph,

Now I am on the clashed dies side, but not with the obverse from this medal.

I found a similar medal from the same time frame with the same reverse. It appears to have the same clash Mark's but with this one, the obverse matches the clashes.

Take a look.
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What do you think?

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ZoidMeister

I found a couple more that look like they were issued in the same time frame.

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And then this pair of Navy / USMC service medals from the China Relief Expedition.
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coinsarefun

I can appreciate them but have no clue whatsoever about these......I'm stumped.

tokenpro

On many military medals the third side holds the key - many have been re-issued and are not period. Quite a bit of info is available on line but you can always buy a copy of Vernon or join OMSA.

https://omsa.org/

ZoidMeister

Awaiting approval to join the OMSA forums. Found my own example of the Nicaraguan For Service medal that I picked up and wanted to store the images here.

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