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Hudson's Bay Company - Beaver Preserve Token in Aluminium Number 406.

Currency:CAD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:350.00 CAD Estimated At:700.00 - 800.00 CAD
Hudson's Bay Company - Beaver Preserve Token in Aluminium Number 406.
SOLD
1,800.00CAD+ buyer's premium (360.00)
This item SOLD at 2018 May 04 @ 18:22UTC-4 : AST/EDT


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Similar as an example sold at the Toronto 2017 Fall Coin Expo Lot 1119. It is believed that the Beaver Preserve tokens were used to monitor the growth of the beaver population. The Indigenous People received a numbered token for each beaver on their trapping lands and the head of each family was given a badge designating that person as a Beaver Warden. The tokens were first issued during the 1930s and were struck in brass. Only 3 Aluminum tokens are known to exist, likely struck during World War II when brass was restricted to use in the war effort. Beaver Preserve tokens are believed to have been in use until the early 1950s. This description represents a portion of the the article by Donald M. Stewart Entitled “THE BEAVER PRESERVE TOKENS” Published in “THE CANADIAN TOKEN”. VOL. 134, #2, MARCH 1984, PGS 48-50. Scarce. VF.