Token - Restaurante Giratório Mirante Rio de Janeiro

Token - Restaurante Giratório Mirante (Rio de Janeiro) - obverseToken - Restaurante Giratório Mirante (Rio de Janeiro) - reverse

© Wilson Roberto Vasques Nunes

Features

Location Brazil
Type Souvenir medals › Tourist souvenir
Years 1976-1993
Composition Brass
Weight 10 g
Diameter 31.6 mm
Thickness 1.7 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
125664

Obverse

Stylized, embossed image of the Santos Dumont Building, where was the Turning Restorer, with images, also stylized, of some tourist points possible to be seen through the windows of the restaurant.

On the image of the Building, in large letters, the word RIO, being that in the center of the "O" there are 16 rays, supposedly simulating the image of the Sun.

Below the image of the building, in large letters the phrase "la Tour".

On the sides, in smaller letters, on the right the legend RESTAURANTE GIRATORIO and the left the legend MIRANTE.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
RIO
RESTAURANTE GIRATORIO MIRANTE
la Tour

Translation:
RIO
ROTARY RESTAURANT MIRANTE
la Tour

Reverse

In the center, 3/4 of a fan with 25 rays, supposedly styling the Sun.

On the left side, entering the center of the fan the legend "la Tour" (read from top to bottom).

Skirting the fan the legend FISH TODAY nowvelle INTERNATIONALE.

Bypassing the fan set and caption, there are two other captions forming a ring.

In the first ring (the innermost), the caption: * WELCOME * BIENVENUE * TELEFONE 224-2221.

In the second ring (the outer ring), the caption: * BEM-VINDO * WILLKOMMEN * RUA SANTA LUZIA,651 - RIO R.J.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
* BEM-VINDO * WILLKOMMEN * RUA SANTA LUZIA,651 - RIO R.J.
RUA SANTA LUZIA,651 - RIO R.J.

* WELCOME * BIENVENUE *
TELEFONE 224-2221

la
Tour
FISH TODAY nowvelle INTERNATIONALE

Edge

Smooth

Comments

Still in the innovative and impressive context of the building, in Santos Dumont would be built the first rotating restaurant in South America, where visitors and customers, seated at their desks, would glimpse, for one hour, 360º of the rarest beauty of the Marvelous City. It was the La Tour that worked between 1976 and 1993. The establishment was on a sort of platform that rotated with a system of gears. It spun very slowly, it took 70 minutes for a full spin.


http://diariodorio.com/histria-do-edifcio-santos-dumont/

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (1976-1993) 

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