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Lauzon Ferry Token

Currency:CAD Category:Coins & Paper Money / World Coins - Canada Start Price:750.00 CAD Estimated At:1,500.00 - 2,000.00 CAD
Lauzon Ferry Token
SOLD
1,900.00CAD+ buyer's premium
This item SOLD at 2015 May 28 @ 18:35UTC-4 : AST/EDT
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Lauzon Ferry Token BR 560, a token for use on the Lauzon Ferry between Quebec’s Lower Town and Lévis between 1821 and 1828. A consortium led by the Scotts Presbyterian Sir John Caldwell, which included John Goudie, had the ferry built at Goudie’s shipyard in 1816-17 and put her into service in the fall of 1817. The tokens are either pewter or white metal, probably made after the fashion of contemporary communion tokens, and were in use without a countermark until 1825. See the article on the ferry and its tokens in the 2014 Transactions of the Canadian Numismatic Research Society. This example has suffered environmental damage, so that its surfaces are very rough, and some of the legend and the date may have been re-tooled. Nevertheless, there is no indication that it has been cast. Its weight is 6.73gms or 103.9 grains. About Good.


Note this lot is part of the Geoffrey Bell Collection.