Token - Lasqueti island

Token - Lasqueti island - obverseToken - Lasqueti island - reverse

© Rojomano

Features

Location Lasqueti Island (Canada)
Type Souvenir medals › Tourist souvenir
Year 1998
Composition Copper
Weight 9.3 g
Diameter 25 mm
Thickness 2.2 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Coin alignment ↑↓
Number
N#
97600

Obverse

The junk "china cloud" designed and built by Allen and Sharie Farrell. Comet Hale-Bopp and full lunar eclipse.

Designers: Allen Farrell, Sharie Farrell

Reverse

Landscape.
Date.

Lettering:
LASQUETI
19.98

Edge

Plain

Mint

Lasqueti Mint, Lasqueti Island, Canada (1997-date)

Comments

A private mint located on Lasqueti Island, in a remote area of British Columbia. It's capital and main port is probably Squitty Bay.
Largely undeveloped, Lasqueti Island lies southwest of Texada Island, a short distance across the Strait of Georgia from Parksville and Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island. It is approximately 8 km wide and 22 km long, with an area of 73.56 km2 (28.4 sq mi) and is traveled on quiet and unpaved roads. This quaint island, has approximately 350 permanent residents. It is accessible only by the use of a foot-passenger ferry that departs from the terminal at French Creek, across the Strait of Georgia to False Bay in this Island. Others means to travel is by private boat or plane. On the north end of Lasqueti are Scottie Bay and Spring Bay, where there are a cave and eagles' nests. In Scottie Bay there are clam beaches and a shipyard. The road through the center of the island passes lakes, a mountain and some bays before it reaches Squitty Bay boat dock. The roads are unpaved and the island has no public transportation. There are no public camp grounds. Lasqueti is not serviced by B.C. Hydro. Residents live either without electricity or with alternative sources of power like solar or micro-hydro. There is very little industry and no bustling economy.
For more information on Lasqueti Island click on http://www.lasqueti.ca/ and http://www.britishcolumbia.com/regions/towns/?townID=237

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1998 

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