Silver (?) medallion from the farm

[halfdime]

I was closing out this morning's hunt at the silver farm when I got a strong half dollar signal. Up to that point, my best find of the day was a 52D Rosey followed by 35 and 45 wheats. On opening the hole, I found this half dollar sized medallion, and it appears to be silver; I will attempt a cleaning later. The Walker shown is for size comparison only. The shield side has the words "Do right and fear no man." There is a flying creature on the back with the words "COMITE AMERICAIN POUR LES REGIONS DEVASTEES DE LA FRANCE" around the rim. Other features of this side are the dates 1916 and 1923 and, in tiny print, the word Lindauer. The shield side has a tiny 1916 and some other lettering I can't make out. Somebody has to know what this is, and its significance. It has to involve France and the United States, but how? Our involvement in WWI spanned 1917-18. Help?!

 

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[Ridley]

One for the display case!

You've already found so many cool old coins. This compliments them well!


Congratulations!



Ridley

 

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[jadewhiskey]

That's a cool medal.... Congratulations....

I am going out tomorrow - can't wait.....

Hopefully I will have something else to share....

This site is the best....

JadeWhiskey

 

[Boobydoo]

Cool old medal, quite unique. Thanks for sharing.

Smiles!
BDoo

 

[halfdime]

I took this medal over to the farm today and asked if any ancestors had been involved in France after WWI. The answer was no, but their father was injured in the Battle of the Bulge. Sorry, but France wasn't awarding this particular medal for that event, so I guess I'll keep it. The woman guessed that one of their campers had lost it, but we'll never know. While I'm at it, no silver at the farm today, just five wheats and five memorials. Hoping for a better showing tomorrow. We did get another look at two kittens we'll be adopting from the farm next Monday .

 

[Jack(IN)]

Thats a nice find!!! Congrats!~!

 

[renegade_7]

A great looking medallion and quite a history lesson too. Nice dig...

 

[Merf]

That medal is way cool HD-- Congrats on another fantastic find.

 

[captain Jack]

don't know how I missed this one first time around. Very nice!!

 

[ivan salis]

wow neat "silver" find and a great bit of history to go with it to boot---best of both worlds --Ivan

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I took this medal over to the farm today and asked if any ancestors had been involved in France after WWI. The answer was no, but their father was injured in the Battle of the Bulge. Sorry, but France wasn't awarding this particular medal for that event, so I guess I'll keep it. The woman guessed that one of their campers had lost it, but we'll never know. While I'm at it, no silver at the farm today, just five wheats and five memorials. Hoping for a better showing tomorrow. We did get another look at two kittens we'll be adopting from the farm next Monday .

Good on you for trying to see if the current property owner had tie to it.

And good on you for the kittens. We have 20 acres and a small hobby farm and folks just seem to think kittens are absorbed into the chicken yard like olives in a martini. We have three "rescued" kittens to go with our growingly disgruntled original two pedigreed cats (plus one we handed off to the neighbors last February, bless their hearts). One of them weighed less than a pound and some [censored, CENSORED, HOLY EXTREMELY CENSORED!!!] excuse for a human tossed it out on a drive-by to make it's living here. We had to bottle feed it. (Sweet cat, now). All our cats are 100% indoor, and there is a resident tom who precedeed us here that still lives in the barn (and receives absolutely no foreign aid from us beyond tolerance, an occasional kind word and access to water and the hay loft). Swear to you, he brought our most recent cat to the back door, stayed with her and saw she was OK and we had discovered it, then went back to the barn. Amazing. She's was a five or six month old all-black semi-long hair female that showed up starved near-to-death a week after the local University let out for the summer. Nice.

 

[James in Alabama]

Very nice finds halfdime....WTG!

 

[Mirage]

Great find with the metal. Those unique things are the bomb.

 

[Monty]

Extremely nice find. Our country has bailed France out yet another time that I was not aware of. How soon they forgot from the treatment France has afforded us in the past several years. Anyway, that's a great showpiece you found with an interesting history. Monty

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

You shouldn't confuse the French Government with the people or military of France any more than you would confuse the American Government with the people or military of America. I've actually been to France and met some who are pleasant and very supportive of Americans. And some who are not at all. There are entire towns in France who still welcome Americans like family. More so than some parts of Georgia welcome New Yorkers.

Last I knew our Abrams tanks were sporting French made barrels. We also owe them a big one for bottling up the British Fleet at VA/MD and keeping them busy in Europe (or us'n wood all be speeking English tuday).

 

[texian1832]

Charlie P - 1 st off kudos to you and yours for taking the "cast-offs" in - you will be rewarded and those that cast them off will get their just rewards. And secondly, thank you for distinguishing between the actions of a government and those of the citizens, yep been to Paris and was warned that those "Parisians" were rude and arrogant (same thing I hear about New Yorkers), guess what - those folks were as nice as can be. They stopped a metro bus because the bus driver said that it went to our hotel, I mean the entire bus load of folks stood up and yelled (most I could not understand), anyway he stopped and waited until we got on the right bus to the directions and cheers of everyone on his bus. Trust me, that is not a scene we encountered anywhere else. Sorry, didn't mean to hijack the thread - just saying don't judge all books (or folks) by their covers(government).
HH All!

 

[romeo-1]

Nice find!