Japan, Empire. A 1964 Olympic Participation Medal visually-hidden but with contact marks

but with contact marks

the Master of Skirmish Warfare

with evidence of something having been severed from the award along the bottom edge

most likely of French manufacture

47 mm (w) x 38

Japan, Empire. A 1964 Olympic Participation Medal visually-hidden but with contact marksInstituted 1964. Composed of copper with a dark green finish, the participation medal is round with the obverse presenting three stylized runners and one stylized swimmer with a laurel branch in the center, the reverse is engraved XIII OLYMPIAD TOKYO 1964 with the Olympic mark of five rings in the center, measures 61. 3mm in diameter, weighs 117. 9 grams, marked NAIGAI ART INC on rim, notable edge bruise on reverse at 8 oclock, small area of damage to