Stampede Dollar - Calgary, Alberta

Stampede Dollar - Calgary, Alberta - obverseStampede Dollar - Calgary, Alberta - reverse

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Features

Location Canada
Type Trade tokens › Local administration token
Year 1981
Value 1 Dollar
Currency Canada - Local Dollar Tokens
Composition Nickel plated steel
Weight 12.9 g
Diameter 33 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized 31 August 1981
Number
N#
74309
References Pel# AB168
Serge Pelletier; 1993. Standard catalogue of Canadian municipal trade tokens. St. Eligius Press, Sainte-Julie, Quebec, Canada.

Commemorative issue

Guy Weadick

Obverse

A risky form of horse riding.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
SADDLE BRONC RIDE 1981
VALUE IN CALGARY ONE DOLLAR EXPIRES AUGUST 31, 1981

Reverse

Guy Weadick, founder of the Calgary Stampede.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
CALGARY STAMPEDE DOLLAR
1886 1953

Guy Weadick

Edge

Reeded

Comments

http://www.coinsandcanada.com/tokens-medals-trade-dollars.php?title_en=&id=798

Every year, Calgary hosts the Calgary Stampede, a ten-day rodeo, carnival, and exhibition attracting over a million visitors annually. It is Canada's largest annual festival and has since become a cultural icon of the Canadian Prairies. Starting in 1963, trade dollar tokens were struck for use during the festival as a souvenir and novelty, good for one dollar anywhere in Calgary before a certain expiry date. Because most were kept as souvenirs rather than redeemed, this generated a large profit for both the issuing mint and the Stampede authorities.

Starting in 1976, Stampede Dollars displayed one of four privy marks on the reverse: the boot, the hat, the horseshoe, and the saddle.

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC Frequency
1981  550 6% AB168 - Struck in .999 silver
1981  175 000 46% Boot, AB168D
1981  31% Hat, AB168C
1981  20% Horseshoe, AB168B
1981  34% Saddle, AB168A
1981  25 0% Struck in 24K gold

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