Medal - Libération FFI

Medal - Libération FFI - obverseMedal - Libération FFI - reverse

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Features

Location France
Period Provisional Government of the French Republic (1944-1946)
Type Commemorative medals › Military medal
Year 1944
Composition Bronze
Weight 15.38 g
Diameter 31.9 mm
Thickness 2.4 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
235836

Obverse

Civilian fighter in profile, looking to the left and holding a submachine gun in his left hand, raising his fist in his right hand with a Molotov cocktail at his feet.
Buildings, figures, truck, overturned vehicle and engraved tank in the background.
The inscription "L. BAZOR 1944" lower rightAutomatically translated

Lettering: L. BAZOR 1944

Engraver: Lucien Georges Bazor

Reverse

Inscription at the top: "LIBERATION
Below: "FFI
Underneath the cross of Lorraine surrounded on the left and on the right by a laurel branchAutomatically translated

Lettering:
LIBERATION
FFI

Engraver: Lucien Georges Bazor

Edge

Smooth with the punch of the cornucopia and the inscription "BR" next to itAutomatically translated

Lettering: BR

Medal - Libération FFI -  obverse

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Mint

Monnaie de Paris, Paris (and Pessac starting 1973), France (864-date)

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1944  (fr) Monnaie de Paris

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