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The wording on this says "Payable at any store in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories during centennial year 1970". It was probably yet another example of souvenir/centennial/sesquicentennial tokens issued by many towns, including our own. I think there were a whole bunch of things like this -- Canadian municipal trade tokens -- but have not had a chance to do any in-depth research on them.
It's just under 3.5" in diameter. I don't know what animal was used here, but it certainly looks reasonable to be a beaver. That's another thing I was going to try and figure out when I had the chance to do some real research on this.
I ended up paying $60 for it, including shipping. I wouldn't necessarily recommend that sort of price to a casual collector but it goes so well with all the other leather/animal skin money I've already got that I was relatively ok with it. The seller tells me he knows of just one other person in Canada who has one, and paid $75 (CAD, I presume) for it.
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So my gift to myself finally arrived. This is a Canadian municipal trade token, issued in 1970 by Fort Smith, NWT. While hard to see, it has a face value of $3 and was spendable in stores during that year. As for what it's made of... well, I hope that's obvious! Very interesting!  |
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As for what it's made of... well, I hope that's obvious Kinda looks like Justin Bieber's hair circa 2010.   "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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12/28/2018 8:53 pm
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Kinda looks like Justin Bieber's hair circa 2010.  |
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According to my "standard catalogue of Canadian Municiapl trade tokens and notes" by Serge pelletier, it is made of Beaver skin. The "mintage" is not listed, unknown to the author in the 1993 catalogue.
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I just caught myself up on the last couple of months of this thread that I missed.
Some really cool entries during that time.
Check out my counterstamped Lincoln Cent collection: http://goccf.com/t/303507 |
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Here is Silver/Niobium coin that I acquired recently. It is one of the only Niobium coins that I have come across that is not anodized so that you can actually see the natural color of the metal. It's a 2005 Mongolia 500T and the Snow Leopard is made of Niobium.   Edited by casualcoincollector
02/12/2019 06:08 am
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@casualcoincollector. That Mongolian silver is really cool.
Check out my counterstamped Lincoln Cent collection: http://goccf.com/t/303507 |
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Very nice! |
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@chafemasterj, jbuck, Thanks! So, here is something that I think is pretty cool and interesting that a friend of mine gave to me recently. It is Chinese Tea Brick Money. I don't know if this particular example was actually intended to be used as money but my friend did say that he had acquired it in the late 1970's so it is at least several decades old. So, maybe, but regardless of that I still think that it is a very cool and interesting piece. Below is a link to an article that talks about Tea Brick Money. https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/...brick-money/  Edited by casualcoincollector
02/12/2019 10:26 pm
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Very interesting! |
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Casualcoincollector, very cool and interesting! Almost looks like a chocolate bar. Errers and Varietys.
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CCC... I hate to be the bringer of bad(?) news, but that's not an original. The originals are supposed to have 7 kanji at the bottom. I came across those when I first started doing this specialization, and bought a single brick of one of those from a primitive money dealer who said he got it in 1978. I don't think that sort of information is ever truly verifiable though. I'd love an original and from what I've read on them some originals were put into 'circulation' 15-20 years ago in Europe by a dealer that's no longer around. Ken Bressett's research into this can be seen here -- http://www.charm.ru/coins/misc/teamoney.shtml -- I contacted him about the 8-characters thing and he confirmed it, and it seems that most (all?) of the pictures on the internet are not originals. |
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@nautilator,
No worries, to find out that it definitely wasn't intended to be used as money (original) is not particularly a surprise to me. I kind of suspected that much.
Thanks for the information and thanks for posting the link. That was a really interesting read.
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02/16/2019 04:42 am
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