UN/NATO Medals

[VE9MP]

Hello Everyone,
I'm new here, I live in New Brunswick, Canada and I recently came across a pair of United Nations and NATO service medals, from what I gather these were issued to peacekeepers who served ninety days or more in Yugoslavia. These particular ones I have are from a Canadian Peacekeeper who worked with a Signals Squadron of the Canadian Forces. On the Canadian Department of National Defence website it says that only 500 and thirty some of the UN medals were issued, I don't know if that is all together or just for Canadian Soldiers. There is also another bar that goes above the medals which I presume means that the person served more than 90 days in Yugoslavia.
My question is, are these common? Can anyone give me an approximate value on these? They are in perfect condition. (see photos) I don't really know much about these, and I'm sorry for the poor photo quality, but it is the best I can do.





Thanks!

[leigh kitchen]

This links to a UN medal ribbon chart / site:
http://www.medals.org.uk/united-nati...--ribbons1.htm
Your UN medal is :
The UN Iran/Iraq Military Observer Group Medal (UNIIMOG).

Mission began: August 1988.
Mission ended: February 1991.

Awarded: for 90 days' service with the Mission supervising ceasefire and troop withdrawals between Iran and Iraq.

Normal qualification period for UN medals is, as far as I'm aware, 97 days service, each 6 months period after that qualifies for a silver coloured metal numeral for the medal ribbon & ribbon bar.

UN medals are'nt at all uncommon as a rule, the vast majority are just the same medal with a different coloured ribbon.
They "standard" pattern sells in the UK for about £8 - £15, they seem to vary considerably in manufacture, presumably they are copied, or perhaps surplus production is sold off by manufactureres with any ribbon combination they fancy.
So I would imagine that medals produced in Britain may be found over here with ribbons of UN Missions that were not supplied with medals from UK manufactureres etc.
Presumably an impossible subject to dig deeply into.
What adds the value to UN medals is their combination with other medals & their provenance, eg a British General service Medal 1962 with Northern Ireland clasp, paired up with a UN Cyprus (UNFICYP) would be common, other combinations of perhaps British army & police medals with UN mission medals would be scarce.
If possible then you nedd to find out more about your man, bear in mind that he may have been army when he got one medal & police when he got the other, that sort of thing.
I know of UN medals that were awarded about 20 - 25 years apart, to a recipient who was army for one, police for others.
Just noticed - the bar above the medals is the two ribbons for wear without the medals, it does'nt signify further awards unless it has emblems on it.

[MH184]

The first medal is a UNIImog (United Nations Iraq-Iran monitoring observation group) an observer or party to the mission.

The second medal is the post 1995 Former Yugo medal awarded to firstly IFOR troops then SFOR.

30 days, in the British army is 'in country' theatre of operations continuous service or the aircrews that took us in eventualy accumalated the requirements for the bestowal.

90 days, is for those in the area of operations outside the territory (theatre) of operations.

Kr


Marcus