Souvenir Medal - Mongeau Jeweller Montreal, Quebec

Souvenir Medal - Mongeau Jeweller (Montreal, Quebec) - obverseSouvenir Medal - Mongeau Jeweller (Montreal, Quebec) - reverse

Reverse © Camerinvs

Features

Location Canada
Issuing entity A. Mongeau, bijoutier & horloger
Queen Victoria (1837-1901)
Type Promotional items › Advertising token
Year 1891
Composition Pewter
Diameter 28 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
352663

Commemorative issue

Provincial Exhibit, Montreal 1891

Obverse

The "Palais de Cristal" which was the Exhibition building.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
SOUVENIR DE L'EXPOSITION
PROVINCIALE
C. TISON ─ PALAIS DE CRISTAL
MONTREAL 1891

Translation:
Souvenir of the Provincial Exhibition, Montreal, 1891
Cristal Palace.

Designer: C. Tison

Reverse

Shield in a wreath of maple leaves.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
A. MONGEAU
BIJOUTIER &
HORLOGER
MONTRÉAL

Translation: A. Mongeau, Jeweller and Clockmaker, Montreal.

Edge

Plain.

Comments

The standard catalogue reference is LeRoux 1517b:



The LeRoux catalogue is in the public domain and is the standard reference for 19th-century and earlier Canadian exonumia. The full reference is:

LeRoux, Joseph, Le médailler du Canada / The Canadian Coin Cabinet, 2nd ed., Montreal, 1892.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1891 

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