Picked this out of my humi. Have no idea what it was, when I got it, or who gave it to me. The small writing is in Cyrillic. Decent smoke but horrible construction.

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bump- anybody? Google is not helping!
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Maybe if you didn't take such blurry pictures! :-)

but seriously, I dont believe I've ever seen that band before. I'd be curious to know what it is if you ever figure out.
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Tough to get an up close w/o flash to glare-out entire picture!
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a never before seen band...i looked for about an hour last night and couldn't find anything. Google image search was a bust. even tried looking at eBay through the "cigar bands" and still nothing.
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I was hoping maybe to discover a cigar brand by reading the Cyrillic, but no luck- at least it's not a brand I ever heard of- if there is a brand in there!
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better pic!

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I was hoping seeing the letters would help, but now that I see they're not letters I'm even more confused :-)
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Russian?
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My thoughts exactly.
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Possibly a Bulgarian Coat of Arms.
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Doesn't Russian language use the Cyrillic alphabet?
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If nothing else, i have an old roommate that was Army Intelligence and is fluent in Russian and several other languages in that region I could try to pass the image on to him and have him translate it if we have no one here that can.
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I'm guessing it's eastern European Cyrillic as opposed to Greek. Now I feel bad that I smoked it!

Yup- looks to be Bulgarian coat of arms! "Unity Makes Strength." Could this be a CRA release?
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My Russian buddy thinks it's possibly Bulgarian.
Closest he can figure: "United Our Rights to Drink" though maybe not "drink".

He's checking with a Bulgarian friend now, I'll update when he gets back to me.
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You hit it hotreds
Strength in Unity or Unity makes Strength.
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one final bump for this!
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Three lions rampant on a field of broccoli........Def. Bulgarian.
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That's kale not broccoli. Geesh. :-)
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Looks like broccoli rabe to me :-)
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