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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3241233, member: 82322&quot;]I believe it was a historical medal commemorating the victory, not a decoration that a soldier would receive.&nbsp; There is one on eBay with the same V as yours at <a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/Victory-Over-Germany-in-World-War-II-Italy-1945-Rare-Medal/283260366683" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/Victory-Over-Germany-in-World-War-II-Italy-1945-Rare-Medal/283260366683" rel="nofollow">https://www.ebay.com/itm/Victory-Over-Germany-in-World-War-II-Italy-1945-Rare-Medal/283260366683</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The artist is Aurelio Mistruzzi (1880-1960).&nbsp; I have only found the two versions, mine cursing the Nazis, yours celebrating the Americans.&nbsp; Probably struck in 1945.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Medusa side says GERMANIA. DEVICTA. MCMXLV (&quot;Germany conquered 1945&quot;) and is signed MIST/RU/ZZI.&nbsp; Mistruzzi may have only been the sculptor because I found an example in a museum collection with the note &quot;Aurelio Mistruzzi, sc. after Chiavacci&quot;.&nbsp; I believe &quot;sc&quot; is an Italian abbreviation for designer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mistruzzi is famous for sculpting the busts on the official coins of Pius XI and part of those of Pius XII. He hid a 10-year-old Jewish girl from the Nazi&#039;s in his home for over a month [ <a href="http://db.yadvashem.org/righteous/family.html?language=en&amp;itemId=6356167" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://db.yadvashem.org/righteous/family.html?language=en&amp;itemId=6356167" rel="nofollow">http://db.yadvashem.org/righteous/family.html?language=en&amp;itemId=6356167</a> ][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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