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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 2278549, member: 16729&quot;]These early pieces (within 10 years of the founding of the PRC) must be rare; diplomatic pieces even more so....</p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder what the &quot;significant contributions to China&#039;s development&quot; for which Hans Eckhardt was responsible?&nbsp;&nbsp; Hopefully he hadn&#039;t contributed to the Great Leap (大躍進) which was taking place when this medal was issued.&nbsp; And the medal being issued by Zhou is quite key to its novelty:&nbsp; He was one of a very few of the early leadership that people in China even cared for when he died.&nbsp; There was true grief at <i>his</i> funeral: At least he had not been insane.&nbsp; When Mao died, the grief was mainly feigned, except among the young, who knew nothing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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