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1939 Czechoslovakia medal...Lion

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  • AuldFartteAuldFartte Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭✭
    Wow ... a lion and a bear image

    Great medal !!! What's it comemmorate?

    Looks like it has something to do with being taken over by the Nazi's and wanting to be free again.
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  • SYRACUSIANSYRACUSIAN Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭✭
    edited first idiotic guess.

    Gigantic Czechozlovakian soldier is tied up in front of his son, already in uniform ,but half his size, and his wife and baby.We shall be free again. image
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  • theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭


    Czechoslovakia Shall Be Free Again (soldier tied to two columns with snakes twined around and topped by German helmets, swastikas on each column, woman-child-baby by his side, Czech scenes in background) // Republika Ceskoslovenska, March 15, 1939 (Arms of Czechoslovakia ). Lightly gilted bronze, high relief, 1 1/2 inch in diameter, uncirculated, signed Medallic Art Co. on the edge, issued at the 1939 New York Worlds Fair to raise money for and bring attention to the occupation of Czechoslovakia.
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  • elvernoelverno Posts: 1,068 ✭
    A really nice medal! image
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  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭
    Forget the lion, nice medal/sentiment.
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  • mamooneymamooney Posts: 22 ✭
    Nice Medal....Down with the Nazi Regime!!!!!

    It must have taken some true energy and fearfulness to create such a medal under Nazi Occupation.

    This is one Nazi themed Medal that is worthy of collecting.
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  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    I think it was made in the states, yes?
  • WhiteLighninWhiteLighnin Posts: 883 ✭
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  • theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
    Yes ,you are correct. Medalic Art Co. N.Y. Edge inscription.
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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,670 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have this medal and always suspected it was World's Fair. Thanks Theboz11.

    There is a medal from the fair with a very similar reverse.
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  • AskariAskari Posts: 3,713 ✭
    I believe the artist was the Czech medalist J. Harcuna. Boz's is a very nice example. image
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  • joepabikejoepabike Posts: 23 ✭✭

    I have a couple of these in their original little Medallic Art Co. boxes (my grandparents were Czech immigrants). Are they copper or bronze?

  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,226 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 20, 2024 4:18AM

    I believe the medal is bronze-off hand I am not sure if there are silver or gold examples.

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  • joepabikejoepabike Posts: 23 ✭✭

    @coinkat said:
    I believe the medal is bronze-off hand I am not sure if there are silver or gold examples.

    When I looked for TPGS examples of them, I didn't see any indication that there were gold or silver versions. I did see different verbiage on labels and descriptions, including "bronze," "gilt bronze," and "copper" -- but all the images looked the same! lol

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