ITALY International Exposition prize medal 1914
$165.00
ITALY, medal, 1914, in the shape of a double headed spread eagle, on its breast are the arms of Italy, around: EXPOSIZIONE INTERNAZIONALE ROMA 1914, suspended by chain links to a crown, on the back of which is a ring, hanging from the eagle’s feet is a panel on which GRAN PREMIO, multipart construction, red, white, and green enameled brass, overall 68x130mm, 77.2g, a small piece of enamel is missing from the GRAN PREMIO panel, otherwise it is XF
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A nice, elaborate medal.
I found similar things dated 1912 online. This is the only 1914 I’ve come across.
Medals, awards, decoration, insignia, documents, equipment, of military, police, private, and irregular military style organizations. We sometimes sell small weapons but we do not sell working firearms. If a thing happens to be military but is hundreds of years old I stop thinking of it as a military thing and start thinking of it as a relic or an antiquity. I suppose that means that “militaria” really starts around the middle of the 19th century or so, when uniforms became normal. Does that seem right to you?
Over the decades I’ve been selling collectibles my market has been about 97% coins, 2% paper money, 1% everything else.
