Military badges, coins, insignia, etc....

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I can't remember if I posted this years ago or not.

Amomg my grandfathers ww2 military stuff I found this and got to keep it after he passed.
It has stumped many military historians and pin collectors.
I even let the guys at a local coin shop look at it and they didn't find anything resembling it, besides its real gold.

Any help would be appreciated.
(He served in the 69th infantry 1944-1945 France to Russia , as a Combat Engineer, Leipzig liberation and Elbe day, "East meets West" meeting between allies and Russian forces at the end of WW2)
 

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#453
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BEATBAMA12 said:
I can't remember if I posted this years ago or not.

Amomg my grandfathers ww2 military stuff I found this and got to keep it after he passed.
It has stumped many military historians and pin collectors.
I even let the guys at a local coin shop look at it and they didn't find anything resembling it, besides its real gold.

Any help would be appreciated.
(He served in the 69th infantry 1944-1945 France to Russia , as a Combat Engineer, Leipzig liberation and Elbe day, "East meets West" meeting between allies and Russian forces at the end of WW2)
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Never seen anything like that before.

I sent the picture along with your comments to my son to see if he can find out anything about it.
 
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Consistent lurker in this thread. Glad to see it back. Military memorabilia and history has always been a huge interest of mine. Thank you for posting, and for serving as well.
 
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vol_in_ar said:
I feel cheated was there for 6 months and never saw it
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When our group went in and Bare Based AL Udeid, Qatar in 01, AAFES was using those instead of change. That where I got mine.

I miss those "Wild, Wild West Days".
 
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I ended up having a s*** ton of those POGs after my 5 tours. I bought a bottle of Crown Cask No. 16
 
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malinoisvol said:
When our group went in and Bare Based AL Udeid, Qatar in 01, AAFES was using those instead of change. That where I got mine.

I miss those "Wild, Wild West Days".
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I didn't see an AAFES when I was there ('91), guess that might be why I never saw these
 
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vol_in_ar said:
I didn't see an AAFES when I was there ('91), guess that might be why I never saw these
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When we went in to build that base up in Oct 01, AAFES brought in a shopette soon, thereafter.

I'm guessing here, if I remember correctly, I probably don't, transporting coinage would have been to heavy and expensive, thus the pogs.
 
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malinoisvol said:
When we went in to build that base up in Oct 01, AAFES brought in a shopette soon, thereafter.

I'm guessing here, if I remember correctly, I probably don't, transporting coinage would have been to heavy and expensive, thus the pogs.
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That is correct.
 
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