Tag: Dairy Token

Club Meeting Tuesday 15th June – Ron Greene B.C. Tokens

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Hi everyone,  The next North Shore Numismatic Society’s Zoom Meeting is Tuesday, June 15th.  You can sign onto Zoom at 6:30 pm (Pacific Time), 9:30 pm (Eastern Time) and the meeting will start at 7:00 pm ((Pacific Time), 10:00 pm (Eastern Time).  It is open to both members and non-members, so everyone is welcome.  Program:  This month, we have guest speaker Ron Greene, who will present a PowerPoint on “B.C. Tokens”.  Ron is a long time numismatist and prominent collector of banknotes and tokens.  He has authored several articles and recently created an extensive catalogue of B.C. tokens.  Ron has…

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Scarce Golden BC Dairy Token

I had some luck at a VNS show in the 1990’s. This token showed up and I had not heard of it so I bought it. Golden, B.C., is not really a noted token issuing place. It was a dairy token so I rather assumed that it would be from the 1930’s or 1940’s before the plastic dairy tokens came in. But no, this one turned out to be earlier (around 1910’s which was unusual. Since this token was found at about the same time things were going on line. I was able to find out that a Basil Ashton…

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