nonamateur collection
I LOVE a coin or medal that is nearly impossible to identify! 
A BRIEF HISTORY: The name, Tomas Claudio,alas, is a name known ONLY to the people of the Philippines, who consider him a Hero. And yet...Tomas Claudio was was the FIRST Philippino killed in Europe during WWI, and for the cause of Freedom and Democracy...as a member of the AMERICAN Expeditionary Forces to France!He died for AMERICA! ANOTHER little known fact: The Philippines, at that time , was a Territory of the USA, and Filipinas w
I LOVE a coin or medal that is nearly impossible to identify! A BRIEF HISTORY: The name, Tomas Claudio,alas, is a name known ONLY to the people of the Philippines, who consider him a Hero. And yet...Tomas Claudio was was the FIRST Philippino killed in Europe during WWI, and for the cause of Freedom and Democracy...as a member of the AMERICAN Expeditionary Forces to France!He died for AMERICA! ANOTHER little known fact: The Philippines, at that time , was a Territory of the USA, and Filipinas w
Asia
Philippines
1918