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Goetz medal - original or copy?

MadMuffinMadMuffin Posts: 468 ✭
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I recently bought this Goetzie on Ebay for just $50. The seller failed to mention in the auction title that the medal was German and that it was a Goetz. Can anyone tell me if this is an original?

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Weight is 75.4 gram
Diameter is approximately 54mm
Metal is iron

So - did I do well here or is there some other reason it was cheap?? image

Marcel
Ebay user name: 00MadMuffin00

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  • MadMuffinMadMuffin Posts: 468 ✭
    This may be the English copy of the original Goetz medal. Am I right?

    Marcel
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  • theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
    Thats the Lucitania medal, they are of that texture, and you can compare it to an original at Cachmans site. He is the goetz expert.
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  • farthingfarthing Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭
    Definitely a copy. Lacks the fine details of an original - very mushy. See K156 on the site theboz11 linked to.

    Also, on the original the month is MAI. On English copies the month is MAY
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  • MadMuffinMadMuffin Posts: 468 ✭
    Yeah, I figured it was a copy. Anyone knows the approximate value of these?

    Apart from that, Cacheman's site is amazing. Besides from the beauty of those medals his collection must be worth a fortune. Lucky man image

    Marcel
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  • percybpercyb Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Yeah, I figured it was a copy. Anyone knows the approximate value of these?

    Apart from that, Cacheman's site is amazing. Besides from the beauty of those medals his collection must be worth a fortune. Lucky man image

    Marcel >>



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  • MadMuffinMadMuffin Posts: 468 ✭
    No, I'm just a little shy image
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  • cachemancacheman Posts: 3,118 ✭✭✭
    British copy....you paid market for it if you got the box with it but it doesn't sound like you did otherwise you'd know it was a copy. Still fun to own though...image
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  • CruziCruzi Posts: 460
    The English Copy is as interesting as the original, used for propaganda purposes, exploiting a dating error on original to say the attack was planned on the civilian craft.

    They made about 300,000 of them from steel IIRC, great piece of history.
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