My U.S Army Medal Collection
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ต.ค. 2024
- I recently refound my old Medal collection. I started collecting about 20 years ago but stopped around 10 years ago. (i do say at the start I started 10 years ago a mistake). To my knowledge none of my medals apart from possibly 2 are unawarded and obtained as or from new.
Would love to see more vids on this. Not very many vids on phaleristics on youtube
My Favorite is the Gallantry Cross and the purple Heart. Awesome Collection.
"These are some nice medals. Best I can do is 5 bucks."
Nice collection mate, I got all the cap badges from Tyneside regiments that fought on the Somme, i'll frame them one day
Great video Would you ever sell any of these medals? I would be interested for sure !
FYI - Army medals that are awarded to soldiers are very seldom engraved except for the highest awards. In my 20 years in the Army, I earned 22 medals. Actually 9 medals but most of them I received a multiple times throughout my career. Not a single one of them were ever engraved. As a first sergeant, my company commander and I awarded hundreds of awards to our soldiers, none of them were engraved. If you find one engraved, either the recipient had it engraved themselves after receiving the award, or perhaps the unit had it done before presentation.
Then it is possible that some or all of the very first batch of medals i got off of ebay that did say they were awarded. Perhaps that is true. I just cant see some one get rid of some really important medals. Particularly the silver star and the DSC?
Maybe the engraving is a British thing engraved with name and army/service number. Thanks for the info very interesting.
@@granapriego Many of us who served in Vietnam felt betrayed by our government, and many threw away any medals they earned as a result. Today, if you go to a garage sale, you can find all kinds of medals. Many times when a veteran dies, the family doesn't have any desire to keep those medals and will just sell them to get rid of them. I served in Vietnam, Operation Urgent Fury in Granada, and Desert Shield Storm. I retired right after Desert Storm. I put my stuff away until this year. 32 years after I retired and built a shadow box of all my military medals and ribbons for my daughters who will get it when I'm gone.
Nice video. Interesting stuff.
That was interesting. I was surprised by a couple of things. First that your oldest medal was from what I consider to be a modern war; Vietnam. I suppose that just shows my age but also links to my second observation; I always imagined that medals were all awarded and that collectors acquired them when they were sold by the recipient or their families. How does a market in unawarded medals get established? It suggests the US government mint medals specifically for commercial sale, a bit like the Post Office print postage stamps that they know will never be used for their primary purpose but be purchased by collectors instead.
Yes I must say that all my separate medals were brought from us military uniform stores. I guess replacements for campaign and lesser earned medals you could buy easily. I always sent an email explaining to the store I was collecting them and from the UK. All of the boxed medals were also easily got from eBay at the time. I think it is practically impossible to get Purple Heart and above now due to the Stolen Valour act. That tries to crack down on fakers trying to get discounts and special treatment veterans if the armed services would receive in the US.
It has however has nailed down the ease that you can get medals today. But eBay is not as full of them as 10 years ago or more and the prices have risen hugely since I last brought a medal.
Glad you enjoyed it, like I said they do have a special place in my heart.
Medals aren't minted for sale. They are made in expectation of awarding. Like the National Defense Medal. Every new service member is awarded one. So they make like hundreds a month. Some are sent to surplus stores and PXs on base to buy when you update your rack. Most higher medals are in lower supply due to them not being as needed. But the basic campaign and commendation medals and ribbons are very common due to the amount of awarding a month or year.
WOOO NICE NEVER SAW THIS I HAVE WW2 N ACW ...N NAPOLONIC STUFF...WELL DONE
A hidden gem hey?
Yes I do not collect them anymore but I still love them. When I collected them it was the golden age for us Brits they were relatively cheap and easy to get hold of I got some real bargains the 4 or 5 years I collected.
@@granapriego I HAVE THE AUTOGRAPHS OF 40 PLUS AIRMEN ALL BLACK SOILDERS TUNSKEE AIRMEN WW2 SELLING ON E BAY ....TODAY THEY OFFERED ME 300 ASKING 380....I REALLY WANT TO KEEP THEM ....LOL BUT LIKE MY METALS ...LOL
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Yeah know what you mean. Medals are hard to get hold of these days keep hold of them.