Medal - Sudbury Ontario Model Mine
Features
| Location |
Canada
 |
|---|---|
| Type | Commemorative medals |
| Years | 1965-1968 |
| Composition | Bronze |
| Weight | 25.87 g |
| Diameter | 40.5 mm |
| Thickness | 2.5 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Number | N# 514156 |
| References | THO# 531 Brian Thomson; 2024. 1967 Canadian Centennial Medallions. Self-published. |
Commemorative issue
Canada's Centennial
Series: Canadian Centennial Numismatic Park
Obverse
Headframe for a mine, ore cars on a track (with initials) in the foreground, legend to the right and below.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
1867-1967
CANADIAN
CENTENNIAL
MODEL
MINE
1965
T.S B.C C.F
WELLINGS/B1
SUDBURY CANADA
Reverse
A labelled cross section of a typical mine, surrounded by the legend.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
THE NICKEL CAPITAL OF THE WORLD
HEAD/FRAME
B1
MODEL MINE
IN THE NUMISMATIC
PARK IS A TRIBUTE
TO THE MEN AND
INDUSTRY OF THE
SUDBURY BASIN
WHERE NICKEL
COPPER ORE WAS
DISCOVERED
IN 1883
SHAFT
MACISAAC MINING & TUNNELING CO.
ORE
DRIFT
CROSS SECTION
OF A TYPICAL
SUDBURY MINE
* SUDBURY *
Edge
Plain
Mint
Wellings Mint, Rexdale, CanadaComments
Compositions were Bronze, Nickel-silver and .999 Silver for these fundraising medals (Six sets of three compositions, 18 in total).
From THO on page 161, “Sudbury was the home to ”The Canadian Centennial Numismatic Park" (see Theodore Arthur "Ted" Szilva). The park erected huge monuments of coins and medallions to display to its visitors. To raise money for these monuments, they issued medallions to sell to raise funds. They also issued an album in 1967 shown below."
Initials on the ore cars in the foreground, also appear in other medals of this series and relate to founders/engravers/designers etc.
T.S. Ted Szilva, B.C. Bruno Cavallo, J.G., C.F., etc.
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | References | ||||||||
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| ND (1965-1968) | THO# 531Brian Thomson; 2024. 1967 Canadian Centennial Medallions. Self-published. |
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