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Just wondering, does anyone know roughly how many QSA medals were issued that had the ghost dates faintly visible?

Hi Neil,
A link to the QSA
www.angloboerwar.com/medals-and-awards/b...s-south-africa-medal
I would think the exact number of "ghost dated" examples would be hard to calculate but they do seem to be quite frequently found.

Paul

neil_j wrote: Just wondering, does anyone know roughly how many QSA medals were issued that had the ghost dates faintly visible?

Ok thanks Coldstream. Was just curious as the two QSA medals I have both have the ghost dates.

Hello Neil.....

Welcome to the forum.....

I remember reading an article on another of the forums but I will be damn'd if I can find it now about a report from the Royal Mint on the number of medals that were re-struck to remove the dates and in doing so crate the Ghost Date medals.....

If me memory serves me right there were between 50,000 and 70,000 medals re-struck but don't quote me on that.....

May be more but certainly not less....

Mike

I was hoping that British Battles and Medals would shed some light, but no luck. I expect one needs to consult the Royal Mint records. I poked about a bit and came up with MINT 16/108 at the National Archives online , but I suspect that the cross-referenced MINT 20/13 & 17 require consultation as well. I suspect the other file referenced, MINT 20/198, pertains to the KSA and '01/'02 QSA clasps. Just an educated guess there.

Nick

Almost all the QSA's in my collection were issued to soldiers in South African units and none has 'ghost dates'. I have seen a few in other collections and they were named to men in British units.

I have presumed that this is because Colonials, or, more specifically, South Africans, received their medals later than those issued to British units.

Brett