Token - Sunoco Landmarks of America The Alamo

Token - Sunoco Landmarks of America (The Alamo) - obverseToken - Sunoco Landmarks of America (The Alamo) - reverse

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Features

Location United States
Type Promotional items › Advertising token
Year 1969
Composition Aluminium
Weight 2.0 g
Diameter 26.15 mm
Thickness 1.95 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
156717

Series: LANDMARKS OF AMERICA COIN GAME

Obverse

Script: Latin

Lettering: THE ALAMO

Reverse

Map of the US with lettering inside surrounded by stars.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
SUNOCO
LANDMARKS
OF
AMERICA
© FM

Edge

Reeded

Mint

FM The Franklin Mint, Wawa, Pennsylvania, United States (1964-date)

Comments

LANDMARKS OF AMERICA COIN GAME was a promotional game issued by the Sun Oil Company in 1969. This was an instant winner game with collectible game pieces. With each visit to a participating Sunoco gas station, customers received an aluminum game 'coin' (more accurately, 'medallion') depicting one of twenty famous United States landmarks. There was no prize for collecting all twenty coins, but some coins have INSTANT WINNER on the back in which case the player instantly won a prize.
There were four prizes available in the game; cash in the amounts of $1, $5 and $20, and a beautiful 20-piece set of bronze medals with the same designs as the aluminum game coins. The bronze prize set came with a mounting board and a pamphlet describing the twenty landmarks.
The Franklin Mint produced the game coins, prizes, and all the promotional materials. There are twenty different landmark coins, plus four 'instant winner' varieties, for a total of twenty-four different aluminum game coins in the set. This was the last oil company promotional game produced by The Franklin Mint.
Http://www.billjamie.com/Sunoco/Landmarks-Of-America/Landmarks-Of-America.html

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC Frequency
1969 FM 125 000 50% W/o Sunoco Logo
1969 FM 50% With Sunoco Logo

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