Shell Oil Token - Provincial Arms and Flowers Ontario

Shell Oil Token - Provincial Arms and Flowers (Ontario) - obverseShell Oil Token - Provincial Arms and Flowers (Ontario) - reverse

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Features

Location Canada
Type Promotional items › Advertising token
Years 1965-1968
Currency Promotional Gas Tokens
Composition Brass plated zinc
Weight 12 g
Diameter 30 mm
Thickness 1.8 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
62030

Series: Emblemes floraux et Armoiries du Canada

Obverse

White trillium flower with bilingual English/French name above and below

Script: Latin

Lettering:
WHITE TRILLIUM
TRILLIE GRANDIFLORE

Translation:
White Trillium
White Trillium

Reverse

Coat of arms of Ontario with name and date

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ONTARIO
18 67
ONTARIO

Edge

Plain

Comments

Starting in the 1960s, customers who filled their vehicle up with gasoline at a Shell Oil station in Canada would receive a free promotional medallion like this one. These medallions came in various themed series - to collect them all, you would need to keep going back to Shell Oil stations. In Canada, medallions were released to commemorate the Prime Ministers, the various provincial coats of arms and provincial flowers, the various provincial animals, and more.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (1965-1968) 

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