Machine engraved Purple Heart Medal privately or official government engraving?

[WEAVER45]

Are these Purple Heart medals  privately engraved or official government engraving? The  engraving style looks the same which seems a little odd if they privately engraved and being sold by the same person.

[Kurt Barickman]

Looks bad. But I’ll let the real experts weigh in.

 

 

 

Kurt

[swabbie]

Leon is private.  Looks like a bobvn piece (a known faker years ago).

[WEAVER45]

Can someone provide some photos of other medals that were faked by bobvn.

[AustinO]

The pictured medals are both bad.  One of the other Hearts that seller has is a legitimate WWII kia one (the highest priced offering).  I would not give that seller my money regardless...

[Bruce Linz]

You can search "bobvn" on the USMF and you'll get about 25 hits.  These threads show his past work engraving both medals and knives.

[Dave]

These are both from the "Ohio auction". Not sure who did the engraving, but they've been floating around since 2021 or so. 

[Dave]

[Dave]

Some more photos of the same auction: