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Alsace Lorraine

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Link to an aforementioned Alsace Lorraine medal.
http://www.nitecapt.com/medalion.htm
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  • hookedoncoinshookedoncoins Posts: 1,231 ✭✭✭
    Link
  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    My mother was born in alsace-lorraine. Is that medal available?
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    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    I wish our coins had relief and imagery like that on them.
    Bill

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    09/07/2006
  • harashaharasha Posts: 3,096 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This was one of the medals I purchased at the NYINC, and certainly the most spectacular. Some dealer named Richard Margolis had a very nice selection of French pieces. In fact, some dude from American Heritage Minting, I think, was playing close scrutiny to the selection.
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  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,409 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My great, great, great? grandfather came from Alsace Lorraine. May be one too many greats in there.

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  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭
    Laurent? And ajaan, too! Could we be cousins? Such a small globe! image

    Nice medal, btw.
  • santeliasantelia Posts: 138 ✭✭
    Am I all wet, or isn't there a German medal commemorating the takeover of Alsace-Lorraine in the Franco-Prussian war? Can anyone help me out?
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  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,409 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My ancestery is German. image

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  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    Ajaan, think carefully-what was your great great's name? My mother once told me everyone in Alsace-Lorraine was related and, like Switzerland, it featured a variety of european ethnic backgrounds.
    One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭
    Laurent, what town in the Bas-Rhin area does your mother hail from?
  • AskariAskari Posts: 3,713 ✭


    << <i>Am I all wet, or isn't there a German medal commemorating the takeover of Alsace-Lorraine in the Franco-Prussian war? Can anyone help me out? >>

    You're at least dry behind the ears. image Yes, there is one, but I haven't seen one in quite a while.
    Askari



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  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,409 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Laurent, this is the story I was told. It may be inaccurate.

    My mom's family was originally from Scotland and was named MacDaniel. They ran into some legal troubles and emigrated to the Alsace region of Germany. They changed their name to Daniel to sound 'more Germanic'. My great³ or whatever grandfather came to the US in the 1830s.

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  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    Hey, I was kinda tweakin' you-I'm not sure what part of Alsace Lorraine she was from-guess I'll have to find out now. It is a small world though...image
    One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
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