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Token - The Red Garter

Token - The Red Garter - obverseToken - The Red Garter - reverse

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Features

Location Canada
Type Trade tokens › Discount tokens
Year 1958
Composition Gold plated
Weight 26.29 g
Diameter 38 mm
Thickness 3 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
524627

Obverse

Female banjo player with boots facing right, surrounded by the legend.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
THE RED GARTER
C. DE LORE
NEW YORK CITY
EST. 1958

Reverse

Banjo upper center, text above & below, surrounded by the legend.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
HOME OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS BANJO BANDS
GOOD FOR TRADE
NEW ORLEANS
NEW YORK
SAN FRANCISCO
PHILADELPHIA
CHICAGO
CANADA

Edge

Plain

Comments

Unlike the US based token that was gold over aluminum (TC-334929), this token is magnetic (possibly nickel) and much heavier, with CANADA at the base of the reverse.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (1958) 

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