Hey everyone, I've been having issues finding this set anywhere online or in my Charlton catalogue. The set includes 13 coins. Each coin represents a province's centennial year with a Coat of Arms and Floral Emblem. The 13th coin is commemorating Canada's centennial, with a Coat of Arms on the Front and a maple leaf on the reverse. The casing itself is sitting vertically in a wooden base with a plaque that says, "Minted in British Columbia's Centennial Year (1971). A few things confused me about these coins. Firstly there are no face values on any of the coins. That made me think this could just be a souvenir, of some sort. Secondly the plaque on the wooden base is extremely vague. Why wouldnt it simply say Minted in 1971? Thanks for looking, hopefully someone has an idea as to what this is! Karl
Got me thinkin' The second thumbnail looks like the coins have holes in them. (I know they don't.) But it gave me an idea. Why not put some holes in one or more denominations eh? Seeing as how important Asian heritage is in Canada's history ya know. I think that would be rad.
They are not coins, they are just what they say they are struck in metal and placed into a cardboard sleeve and sold as a collectors item.
Nice looking coins though. To me, something like that is just as collectible as a real coin if you are interested in Canadian history. I like the coats of arms.
They would probably be considered tokens. P.S., I like the bison on the manitoba one. No such thing as such a nice design on real coinage, though.
Wouldn't a token usually have some kind of specified or implied value? Like, you would buy or get a token and could then use it to use a car wash, a public payphone, etc. Or maybe a drink. Don't think the pieces from that Centennial Set had such a function, so for me they are medals ... Christian
Well, I suppose that could be said, but really these coins are open to interpretation. I would be inclined to think they're tokens, and you medals. Back in the pre-Katrina days, I went to Mardi Gras a few times and sometimes what was thrown were large, light coins made from an unknown metal. I still have two, one that features some sort of Greek god, and one that features Drew Carey. Oddly enough, these coins were called doubloons. Since doubloons were the stuff of ancient pirate lore and early American history, these were obviously not doubloons by any means. So basically, you can call them fake coins, slugs, doubloons, tokens, medals, or whatever you like. I think it's really, like I said, open to interpretation.
could be similar to these by Shell http://cgi.ebay.com/COINS-COAT-OF-A...72060209QQihZ016QQcategoryZ3379QQcmdZViewItem
here's another set http://cgi.ebay.ca/Shell-Canada-197...ryZ27444QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
