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Prussian gilding Medal - Wilhelm I - Köning von Preussen..opinions

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  • farthingfarthing Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭
    Nice medal image

    On the first read of the title I thought it was a medal on the gelding of Wilhelm I imageimage
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  • wildjagwildjag Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭
    Very nice image
  • goldrush00013goldrush00013 Posts: 2,478 ✭
    Very cool medal MSD61!!!
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  • oldshepoldshep Posts: 3,240 ✭
    great strike ---- I love that Eagle!!!
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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,383 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I HAVE NOT SEEN THIS ONE... Very nice

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,648 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Neat, but how old is it? Something about the style and the lettering tell me it might not be contemporary?

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  • spoonspoon Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Neat, but how old is it? Something about the style and the lettering tell me it might not be contemporary? >>

    That's what I'm wondering, what's the mark below the eagle?

    Nice either way! image

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  • MSD61MSD61 Posts: 3,382 ✭
    Sorry I should have been more clear on this....DOH! This is an item I am watching and wanted some opinions on it. I see the LM and spoon have picked up on what I see also and that is the style and the lettering. I agree it does not look very contemporary. There are things about this medal that make me feel that it could be a restrike of some kind. I needed some different eyes on it because mine are wearing outimage

    I have send the seller a question but have not gotten answer yet. Here is the link:

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    Thanks you guys!image
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  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭
    I concur with LM and spoon. The engraving is too basel, and the lettering looks "off". The legends are different styles on the obverse and reverse, too.
  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    Either way it is a nice one.
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  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    The beard is enough to make me want to buy this.

    It does look recently produced though.
  • AskariAskari Posts: 3,713 ✭
    Sorry, but this is the first time I've been on the boards since last Saturday. Real life has a nasty way of intervening. image

    This is indeed a modern issue. If I recall correctly, it was part of a three-medal set issued in 1988 to commemorate the centennial of the "Year of 3 Kaisers"; each medal bore the image of one of the three Kaisers: Wilhelm I, Friedrich III (who died of throat cancer a few months after his coronation), and Wilhelm II. I think there was a silver set as well.
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  • MSD61MSD61 Posts: 3,382 ✭
    Thanks much Askari! Since I never got an answer from the seller I passed. What the blazes is so hard to respond to a simple question? Oh wellimage
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  • AskariAskari Posts: 3,713 ✭
    Yeah, it's disappointing that so many sellers can't be bothered responding in a reasonable time -- or at all. Just as well, in this case. This one wasn't in very great shape. I'd wait for a nicer piece -- or the set.
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