. . . . . these Canadian radio station 50th Anniversary tokens are pretty cool . Silver and Gold (plated) they make for an interesting pair. The station is in Owen Sound, Ontario, and the mintage of these are purported to be 1,000 and 250 respectively. Anyone else have any radio station or tokens with a "record?" Z
Very nice collection. I personally do not have any but will keep my eyes open now. Thanks for sharing them.
So, "Valid at participating businesses" gives this value, does that make it a privately minted "coin" or just a token that can be exchanged for a dollar?
It would be cool to "DX" that station, but it would be very difficult to pick it up unless the conditions were perfect. I looked it up, they run 7.5 KW during the day and only 1 KW at night. Not exactly a high powered station. If you live in the US, you MIGHT be able to hear it in the Detroit or Buffalo area, MAYBE Cleveland too, but WKBN in Youngstown is right next door at 570 KHZ...
Given these tokens were made in 1990, that radio station is now coming up on their 75th Anniversary. I wonder what trinkets they will produce in honor of that. Z
I used to DX all the time, usually on short wave. The OP's token is sort of like a different version of the QSL cards that ham operators and foreign radio stations issue when you send them some kind of confirmation that you heard them (usually a description of the broadcast content that you heard, signal strength, etc.)
