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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 7834472, member: 4910&quot;]<img src="https://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_token_harryhealy_dollar.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Harry Healy Trading Post token, Good For $1.00</p><p>Aluminum, 38 mm, 4.20 gm</p><p>Obverse: HARRY HEALY</p><p>Reverse: GOOD FOR $1.00 IN TRADE</p><p><br /></p><p>This interesting dollar-sized aluminum token was a lot of fun to research.</p><p><br /></p><p>Harry Healy operated a trading post in the Canada Yukon Territory town of Old Crow which is located on the Porcupine River in the far northern part of the territory.</p><p><br /></p><p>The trading post operated from the 1920&#039;s to the 1930&#039;s to serve fur trappers who mostly trapped muskrats.</p><p><br /></p><p>Harry Healy issued three types of tokens, Good For $1.00, $0.50, and $0.25.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Token and Medal Society (TAMS) TAMS Journal, October 1971, had an article on these tokens, &quot;The Harry Healy Tokens of Old Crow, Y. T.&quot;, by Donald M. Stewart.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Canada Virtual Museum (Digital Museum) has some photographs of Harry Healy with Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers and friends.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is &quot;Christmas in Old Crow&quot; with Harry Healy and some friends:</p><p><a href="http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/sgc-cms/expositions-exhibitions/gendarmes-mounties/includes/imgWindow.php?id=305&amp;lang=en" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/sgc-cms/expositions-exhibitions/gendarmes-mounties/includes/imgWindow.php?id=305&amp;lang=en" rel="nofollow">http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/sgc-cms/expositions-exhibitions/gendarmes-mounties/includes/imgWindow.php?id=305&amp;lang=en</a></p><p>The photograph was taken sometime around 1929.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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