GERMAN MEDALS at garage sale
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Top from left: medals 1, 2, 4 is WWI Cross of Honor for Combatants
Top from left: medal 3 is WWI Iron Cross Second Class
Oval medal on extreme left: German medal for the fortification of the Siegfried line in 1939 and 1944.
Bottom from left: WWII merit crosses with and without swords.
Not sure what the winged wheel badges are.
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Top from left: medal 3 is WWI Iron Cross Second Class
Oval medal on extreme left: German medal for the fortification of the Siegfried line in 1939 and 1944.
Bottom from left: WWII merit crosses with and without swords.
Not sure what the winged wheel badges are.
NAA.
juanvaldez
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about 50 cents at yard sale
I'm guessing this is a joke.(?) I know nothing of military medals but I'd pay a few bucks for a WWI Iron Cross.
Maybe have a look on ebarf? That seems to be the deciding factor anymore.
They've got to have some value.
gunrunner8
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I wouldn't. Lets forget about heroism hiding behind; operating mustard gas dispenser, killing innocents, rape and pillage.
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rommelrommel
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I picked up an iron cross first class in a pawn shop in Germany, for 30 marks. Can't remember what the exchange to $ was, as it was over 30yrs ago.
No one can understand "let's forget about heroism behind" since it's not a sentence. Secondly, I know a few Iron Cross winners and you cannot paint them all with the same brush. Let's not forget some of these men fought honorably against the most evil regime of the 20th century: Stalin's Soviet Union. He made Hitler's killing spree look like child's play.
So let's not forget about heroism behind... behind indeed.
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- Leduc County, Alberta
I've always wanted to tell someone to f**k off on here before!
Would you be my first?? By the way, it's called grammar...
I went to Ukraine and Russia and picked up a bunch of medals, one war vet was saying the higher ranked medals had serial numbers on the back, the standard issue ones did not. So we ended up only purchasing medals with numbers on the back, I dont know if this applies to German medals though.
You think the Americans, Brits, and yes Canadians never did stuff like that!
The Germans were at war for over 6 years, what do you think would happen if the roles were reversed for say North America? It would be the same thing!
of the WW1 "Hindenburg" Crosses the second one without the swords is a non-combatant version. Those three are worth about $15 - $20 each by themselves, lots around and no reason to doubt their authenticity because they are so common. The Iron Cross, if real, will fetch a pretty penny even with the ribbon missing, $100 at least. The West Wall medal (oval one) again, if real, will fetch about the same as the Iron Cross as they are rarer. The Merit Crosses I've seen go for as low as $20 and as high as $75. The rank ensignia I have no clue as to value.
*IF* you can link any of these together they will fetch more, ie: if you can show that one of the Hindenburg crosses belonged to the Iron Cross winner value will double.
If you do plan on selling I'd wait until the economy recovers a bit, if real these won't lose their value and right now they aren't fetching top dollar.
*IF* you can link any of these together they will fetch more, ie: if you can show that one of the Hindenburg crosses belonged to the Iron Cross winner value will double.
If you do plan on selling I'd wait until the economy recovers a bit, if real these won't lose their value and right now they aren't fetching top dollar.
Can anyone identify any of these medals? They were pretty much given to me, because I knew they were german.....(duh!)
They look to be auththentic, but I'm not a medal guy. I like my mausers much better!
I know CGN isnt supposed to be an auction site but.,...
will give you $200 for the set
what say?
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