Japan, Occupied Manchukuo. A Border Incident War Medal, C.1940 Auction 53 mm x 115 mm

53 mm x 115 mm

bearing a hand-embroidered silver aluminum wire Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika

Each shoulder is adorned with a board

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Japan, Occupied Manchukuo. A Border Incident War Medal, C.1940 Auction 53 mm x 115 mmInstituted in 1940. In bronze gilt, measuring 30. 2 mm in diameter, spotting, light contact, lightly soiled original ribbon with hook and eye, better than very fine. Footnote: The medal was instituted in 1940 and commemorates the Nomonhan Incident, a clash with Russia that happened in Manchuria. The Battles of Khalkhyn Gol were the decisive engagements of the undeclared Soviet Japanese border conflicts fought among the Soviet Union, Mongolia, Japan