Guys,
Indeed, both medals are true ones: Defense of Kiev and Capture of Vienna.
Now, let's stop for a second and think. Why did I purposefully post these medals, and not pictures of the mule?
If that medal is a genuine mint error, it means that a worker there paired two existing dies that should not be used together. If so, both obverse and reverse must be IDENTICAL to the Kiev and Vienna medals coined at that time. If not, then someone will have to explain to me how coining dies can show differences in details when they are paired with a another, unintended die
If there are differences, this means that new dies were produced, a rather time consuming and labor intensive task. Wouldn't that sound somewhat strange for a supposed error?
Marc