50 Cents - Drumheller, Alberta

50 Cents - Drumheller, Alberta - obverse50 Cents - Drumheller, Alberta - reverse

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Features

Location Canada
Type Trade tokens › Local administration token
Year 1962
Value 50 Cents (0.50)
Currency Canada - Local Dollar Tokens
Composition Bronze
Diameter 33 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized 15 November 1962
Number
N#
76829
References Pel# AB2t
Serge Pelletier; 1993. Standard catalogue of Canadian municipal trade tokens. St. Eligius Press, Sainte-Julie, Quebec, Canada.

Obverse

Standing T. rex

Script: Latin

Lettering:
THE DINOSAUR VALLEY

DRUMHELLER ALBERTA

Reverse

Text

Script: Latin

Lettering:
SOUVENIR COIN

WORTH
50c
IN TRADE
AT ANY CO-OPERATING BUSINESS
IN THE DRUMHELLER DISTRICT, OR
REDEEMABLE AT FACE VALUE AT
B.P.O. ELKS #54 DRUMHELLER
ALBERTA

GOOD UNTIL NOV. 15TH 1962

Edge

Plain

Comments

Drumheller's first trade token was issued in 1963, but similar patterns were prepared for use in 1962. For some reason, they never entered circulation, and most were destroyed. The 1962 pattern piece is one of the greatest rarities of Canadian exonumia, with only 2 known to remain.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1962  Only 2 known to exist

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