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Blogs > OnDaFence > Bret's Blogisphere

OnDaFence 36M/44M
44267 posts
8/28/2016 9:28 am

Last Read:
9/2/2016 11:21 pm
Culmination


From my first post asking about some early Canadian bank tokens ("Canada Query") Canada Query which I managed to bid on and win.



To there arrival and subsequent amazement at there size. For "pennies" that is a Canadian quarter beside the top penny and an American 1 cent next to the bottom penny.



To my query about a Lower Canada flag ("Hey Canada... Need help") Hey Canada Need help where 99curious69 suggested I look up Bank of Montreal which I did. There is an early postcard picture of he Bank of Montreal copied off then laminated to a piece of cardboard with the tokens inserted showing both sides.



Thanks to our friends in here we now have an interesting display of early Canadian coinage framed ready to put up in the house.

OnDaFence 36M/44M

8/28/2016 9:38 am

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OnDaFence 36M/44M

8/28/2016 9:39 am

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OnDaFence 36M/44M

8/28/2016 9:39 am

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OnDaFence 36M/44M

8/28/2016 9:39 am

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OnDaFence 36M/44M

8/28/2016 2:10 pm
    Quoting  :
You'd need a wheelbarrow to haul $5 worth of these things around!


Hungr4Yungr 75M
5766 posts
8/28/2016 4:04 pm

 Good job Bret. Fantastic mounting for some huge pennies, with a colorful history.


OnDaFence 36M/44M

8/28/2016 6:15 pm
    Quoting Hungr4Yungr:
    Good job Bret. Fantastic mounting for some huge pennies, with a colorful history.
Thanks to you Canadian friends for making it possible! Having to dive into a field of history neither of us have examined before.


OnDaFence 36M/44M

8/28/2016 6:17 pm
    Quoting  :
This was a fun project to get work on with the help of my friends in here.


99curious69 73M
641 posts
8/28/2016 8:14 pm

 Looks great, well done.


OnDaFence 36M/44M

8/28/2016 9:15 pm

 That old postcard of the bank in winter just set the right mood for the tokins


boux601 75M
682 posts
9/2/2016 3:25 pm

 with the value of a dollar today we would have to hire a Brinks truck to go shopping


OnDaFence 36M/44M

9/2/2016 11:21 pm
    Quoting boux601:
    with the value of a dollar today we would have to hire a Brinks truck to go shopping
Somewhere I read a $million worth of pennies would cover a football field about 100 feet deep in pennies...




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