What are these old medals?Help needed..

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lu-tikka
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What are these old medals?Help needed..

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I have been researching these medals through the internet but founded nothing. These medals have been found in Finland with medaldetector.
Im interested in these medals history and are they german? How old they are and how did they got in here? Rare?

Thank you in advance if you could reply these question :D

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I cant get that image to work, but heres a lin to the medals

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I can see 1941 on one, and writing on a few others but can't really read what it says. Are you sure they originated from Germany? They don't appear to be too reminiscent of the 3rd Reich, seeing as all of them lack the Hoheitszeichen; some even have the Rampant Lion, symbols in a number of European countries, but not Germany.
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At least one has Cyrillic characters on it. The rest look vaguely eastern European, but I've never seen them before.
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Hi lu-tikka,

The small round one with 1941 on it also has three crowns to the left of the walking figure and a standing lion to the right. The three crowns remind me of the symbol used by Sweden (as far as I know only by the Airforce) and the lion sugests it is from a country that is a monarchy (as Sweden is).
The group on the top left (crown, head, shell and a sort of clover) look more like insignia worn on tunics or caps, maybe even part of a harness of a cavalry horse. I don't think those four are medals. Same goes for the two at the bottom right corner.
Sadly I don't recognize any of them but maybe you can find out something more about them by expanding your search to unit insignia.

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None of these are German Third Reich medals that I can tell.
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You might want to check this link for the medal with the walking figure:
http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maaottelumarssi_1941

The one with the skis and the bicycle wheel:
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/nykanen/jari/valo-pp.html
Please note that it could also be another Bicycle Battalion, not necessarily PPP1.

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Oh yes, nearly forgot: The one with the lion is most likely the coat-of-arms of the Grand Duchy of Finland.

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Try this web site

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Take a look at this web site wwww.finnmedals.com. They should be able to help with Finnish awards
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