Shell Oil Token - Prime Ministers of Canada 1873 - Alexander Mackenzie

Features

Location Canada
Type Promotional items › Advertising token
Year 1975
Currency Promotional Gas Tokens
Composition Brass plated zinc
Weight 11.5 g
Diameter 32 mm
Thickness 2.7 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Number
N#
83929

Obverse

Portrait of Alexander Mackenzie, with his name and the year he became Prime Minister of Canada.

Script: Latin

Lettering: Alexander Mackenzie, 1873

Reverse

Picture of Parliament Hill

Script: Latin

Lettering:
OTTAWA CANADA
HOUSE OF COMMONS
CHAMBRE DES
COMMUNES

Edge

Smooth

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.

 The Prime Minister series were made out of zinc plated with a thin layer of brass. But, almost always, the brass layer is found missing, leaving nothing but zinc. Another common defect is a weak strike on Parliament Hill - the very high relief on the heads of the Prime Ministers led to less metal going towards the other side of the token.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (1975) 

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