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Johnny Peppers · 12-06-2001, 10:18 AM

In the 1950's there were catalogs advertising German Nazi medals which were struck from the original dies. The medals were cheap at that time, and no effort was made to try and represent them as original. Now some fifty years later it is very hard to tell a 10 or 15 year time span when the metal was actually struck. Some of the early fakes were rather crude, but recently I was shown a German Cross in gold that looked absolutely authentic to my untrained eye, but the dealer pointed out several things that were apparent after his explaination, and he had it priced as a reproduction.

12-06-2001, 10:18 AM	#8
Johnny Peppers User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Calion, Arkansas Posts: 1,042 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: Bull-loney In the 1950's there were catalogs advertising German Nazi medals which were struck from the original dies. The medals were cheap at that time, and no effort was made to try and represent them as original. Now some fifty years later it is very hard to tell a 10 or 15 year time span when the metal was actually struck. Some of the early fakes were rather crude, but recently I was shown a German Cross in gold that looked absolutely authentic to my untrained eye, but the dealer pointed out several things that were apparent after his explaination, and he had it priced as a reproduction.