Anyone Know What These Medals Are? Thanks

since they say the value is one dollar at select places, I would bet they are not silver. if a magnet sticks its not silver. I believe the value of silver in 81 and 85 was sky high. I am not sure if they made these types of coins with other non magnetic metals.

Yes, some of these Trade dollars really were made in silver in extremely limited numbers as special giveaways or prizes. Apparently, 550 Calgary Stampede dollars from 1981 were struck in 17 grams of .999 silver, and 50 Amherst Trade dollars from 1985 were also struck in 17 grams of .999 silver. To me, they look like silver, so I think you got lucky. Use a magnet to confirm it, silver won't stick (but nickel-bonded steel will).

Serge Pelletier's Standard Catalogue of Canadian Municipal Trade Tokens and Notes is a good reference. The Amherst dollar is scarcer, but generally the silvers seem to be selling in the $25 range, give or take, some do certainly sell higher.

Unfortunately I can't help you with this one - quite a few years ago, when I was all of 7 or 8 years old, I signed up for RCNA membership and got an excellent free box of coins, notes, and numismatic literature. In it was the 1993 edition of the Standard Catalogue of Canadian Municipal Trade Tokens and Notes. I've never seen another copy anywhere else.

The values are probably not accurate for two reasons:

1. It was published in 1993, when precious metal prices were quite a bit lower, and;

2. The catalog was "made possible by a generous grant by the Sherritt Mint". The Sherritt Mint is also the company that produced most of these tokens - do you see a possible conflict of interest?

And your silver tokens have no listed price because of their extreme rarity (even if the market is tiny, 50 is really an incredibly tiny mintage for anything).

I have never met a dedicated collector of municipal trade tokens, but the more I look through mine, the more they begin to appeal to me...

I searched Google over and over and cannot find any for sale. Can you pls send me the link? Thx

Here's one with a mintage half your Amherst that sold for $31.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Charlotteto...p=true&rt=nc




I don't see them now either - one still shows in the search, but it's marked as sold.

Sorry staff moderator, I'm guilty of not reading the rules and I can understand the reasons now

Thanks