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Lr. 1066l — The Philatelic Society of Canada, Member No. 66. Undated. Brass.

Currency:CAD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:90.00 CAD Estimated At:175.00 - 200.00 CAD
Lr. 1066l — The Philatelic Society of Canada, Member No. 66. Undated. Brass.
SOLD
625.00CAD+ (125.00) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2023 May 05 @ 17:49UTC-4 : AST/EDT

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Breton-826. 30.6mm. 7.16g. These tokens were issued to the extent of 100 pieces by stamp collector J.P. Prudhomme of Ottawa. According to Breton, “His object for ordering this piece to be struck was to effect exchanges with it for stamps to add to his collection.” In his cataloguing of the Roy Hughes Collection, Warren Baker called the issue “very scarce” and noted that to his best recollection, Doug Ferguson did not have an example as late as 1958. This example is lustrous brassy-gold. Unc.