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Do you like my Marianne medal?

Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭
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And could someone translate the reverse?



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I'm pleased to say that it's nicer than the scans provided by the seller, and nicer than my scans show too.
"It's far easier to fight for principles, than to live up to them." Adlai Stevenson

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  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    "Military Preparedness Prize offered by the Minister of war". Nice medal-Mariannne is beautiful, isn't she?
    One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
  • oldshepoldshep Posts: 3,240 ✭
    Beautiful relief and design - that almost makes me want to collect medals also.......almost.
    Shep
    I think it says - Prize for military preparation from office of the minister of war.
    Shep
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  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭
    Marianne! Ahhhhhhh! image
  • AethelredAethelred Posts: 9,291 ✭✭✭
    Nice, but not very British Steve!image
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  • MSD61MSD61 Posts: 3,382 ✭
    Great piece!!! I like it alot. Wait a minute....where's Ginger????image
    Omnicoin
  • AethelredAethelred Posts: 9,291 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Great piece!!! I like it alot. Wait a minute....where's Ginger???? >>




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  • windwhispersintreeswindwhispersintrees Posts: 605 ✭✭✭
    Nice. France has some beautiful designs.
    "A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes"--Hugh Downs
  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭
    Thanks Laurent!



    " Nice, but not very British Steve!" Athelred, I'm working on a French type set too.


    "It's far easier to fight for principles, than to live up to them." Adlai Stevenson
  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    It would make a great giveawayimage
    Bill

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    09/07/2006
  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    Yes, I like your medal very much.

    The prettiest thing out of France this side of Catherine Deneuve.
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
    Very Nice, image
    My Medals collection

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