Tokens with Breton #s not in the Charlton Catalogue of Canadian Colonial Tokens (10th Edition)


Breton 500 Series Part 2: Token numbers Br-566 to Br-599



While a large number of the tokens listed in P.N. Breton's catalogues from 1894 and 1912 are listed and re-catalogued in the 10th Edition of the Charlton Catalogue of Canadian Colonial Tokens, not all tokens were re-catalogued.
This section details most of the "500 Series" Breton tokens not found in the Charlton catlogue.

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Token Photo
Breton
Cat #
Year
Denom
Token Information
Br-566
1849
Business
Card
Token
Obverse Content:

Legend: MAYSENHOLDER & BOHLE / GOLD SMITHS
Center: ESTABLISHED 1849
 
Reverse Content:

Legend: CORNER ST. VINCENT & NOTRE DAME
Center: (Rose) MONTREAL. (Beaver)
 
Br-571
Business
Card
Token
Obverse Content:

Legend: MAISON JACQUES CARTIER / QUEBEC
Center: (beaver with a branch in its mouth) St ROCH
There are two varieties of obverse - Short Whiskers and Long Whiskers
Reverse Content:

Legend: UN CENTIN PAYABLE / QUEBEC
Center: CHEZ / H. GAGNON & CIE / RUE LA COURONNE / St ROCH
 
Br-572
???


Obverse Content:

Legend: (none)
Center: (Eight playing cards fanned around the king of hearts)
 
Reverse Content:

Legend: (none)
Center: (Eight playing cards fanned around the ace of hearts)
 
Br-573
1886
Business
Card
Token
Obverse Content:

Legend: MONTREAL FONDEE EN 1642 / 1837 - 1866 - 1885
Center: (beaver cutting a branch from a tree) / ("A. Desroches. Numismate. MONTREAL" inside a decorative frame) / APPEL AUX ARMES / 1752-1812 (Fleur-de-Lis)
 
Reverse Content:

Legend: "INAUGURES A MONTREAL" flanked by a pair of maple branches
Center: "IMPRIMERIE 1778. JOURNAL 1778. VAPEUR 1809. CHEMIN DE FER 1836. GAZ 1837. PHOTOGRAPHIE 1842. TELEGRAPHE 1848. MACHINE A COUDRE 1850. CHAR URBAIN 1863. TELEPHONE 1880 LUMIERE ELECTRIQUE 1883" all inside a shield / "C. TISON" below the shield
 
Br-574
1887
Business
Card
Token
Obverse Content:

Legend: L. GNAEDINGER, SON & Co. / MONTREAL
Center: (corner view of a building)
 
Reverse Content:

Legend: ESTABLISHED / 1852
Center: FURS HATS CAPS
 
Br-574A
1902
Business
Card
Token
Obverse Content:

Legend: L. GNAEDINGER SON & Co. MONTREAL / FURS
Center: FIFTY YEARS OF SUCCESS (star with rays projecting out of it) 1852-1902
 
Reverse Content:

Legend: MOOSE HEAD BRAND GUARANTEES BEST MATERIAL & WORKMANSHIP / Reg'd
Center: (image of a bull moose head) TRADE-MARK
 
Br-575
1887
Business
Card
Token
Obverse Content:

Legend: D. DESJARDINS / MONTREAL
Center: MARCHAND / TAILLEUR
(Token has a ring attached to the top)
Reverse Content:

Legend: ETABLIS EN / 1885
Center: (image of an opened pair of scissors surrounded by a ring of string or thread)
 
Br-576
1886
Business
Card
Token
Obverse Content:

Legend: E.A. CARDINAL / MONTREAL
Center: NUMISMATIST
 
Reverse Content:

Legend: MONTREAL
Center: (image of a beaver eating a maple twig) 1886 / M.E.L.
 
Br-577
1886
Business
Card
Token
Obverse Content:

Legend: E.A. CARDINAL / MONTREAL
Center: NUMISMATIST
 
Reverse Content:

Legend: MONTREAL / CANADA
Center: (image of a beaver eating a maple twig) 1886 / M.E.L.
 

Br-578
Business
Card
Token
Obverse Content:

Legend: E.A. CARDINAL / MONTREAL
Center: COLLECTOR OF RARE COINS
 
Reverse Content:

Legend: RARE COINS
Center: BOUGHT, SOLD & EXCHANGED
 
Br-579
1871
Business
Card
Token
Obverse Content:

Legend: LYMBURNER & BROTHER / MONTREAL
Center: GOLD AND SILVER PLATERS 663 CRAIG, STREET
Note:
- Thin planchet is original issue by Lymburner
- Thick planchet is one of 100 copies struck by Dr.J. Leroux some time after 1878.
Reverse Content:

Legend: LYMBURNER & FRERE
Center: DOREURS ET ARGENETEURS / 663 RUE CRAIG. / MONTREAL
 
Br-579A
Business
Card
Token
Obverse Content:

Legend: LYMBURNER & MATHEWS / MONTREAL
Center: (none)
- All lettering is incuse
Reverse Content:

Legend: (none)
Center: 5 / A D
- All lettering is incuse
Br-579B
Business
Card
Token
Obverse Content:

Legend: LYMBURNER & MATHEWS / MONTREAL
Center: (none)
- All lettering is incuse
Reverse Content:

Legend: (none)
Center: 5 / J W M
- All lettering is incuse
Br-580
Business
Card
Token
Obverse Content:

Legend: M.E. LYMBURNER / MONTREAL. CANADA
Center: GOLD / SILVER & NICKEL / PLATER / 485 / St JAMES St
 
Reverse Content:

Legend: MANMUFACTURER OF / BRASS MOULDER & FINISHER
Center: CARRIAGE & HARNESS / (maple leaf) / TRIMMINGS.
 
Br-581
1886
Business
Card
Token
Obverse Content:

Legend: FOR THE COMFORT OF SLEIGHS USE LYMBURNER'S HEATER
Center: (image of a woman's foot resting on a sleigh heater)
 
Reverse Content:

Legend: MONTREAL / CANADA
Center: (image of a beaver eating a maple twig) 1886 / M.E.L.
Uses the obverse die from Br-577
Br-582
1885
Business
Card
Token
Obverse Content:

Legend: BUY THE CANADIAN COPPER COIN CATALOGUE $0.50
Center: NUMISMATIC ATLAS / FOR CANADA / $1.50 AND $2.00 / AND COLLECTORS / VADE MECUM $1.00 / BY / JOs LeROUX M.D. / MONTREAL / CANADA
Quantity of Two hundred struck in December of 1885.
Reverse Content:

Legend: ACHTEZ LE CANADIAN COPPER COIN CATALOGUE $0.50
Center: L'ATLAS NUMISMATIQUE / DU CANADA / $1.50 ET $2.00 / ET LE VADE MECUM DU / COLLECTIONNEUR / $1.00 / PAR / JOs LeROUX M.D. / MONTREAL / CANADA
 
Br-583
1886
Business
Card
Token
Obverse Content:

Legend: LABOR IMPROBUS OMNIA VINCIT
Center: (beaver above a coat of arms, flanked by two wreaths)
- Qty 86 struck
Reverse Content:

Legend: ACHTEZ LE CANADIAN COPPER COIN CATALOGUE $0.50
Center: L'ATLAS NUMISMATIQUE / DU CANADA / $1.50 ET $2.00 / ET LE VADE MECUM DU / COLLECTIONNEUR / $1.00 / PAR / JOs LeROUX M.D. / MONTREAL / CANADA
- French version of Br-584.
Br-584
1886
Business
Card
Token
Obverse Content:

Legend: LABOR IMPROBUS OMNIA VINCIT
Center: (beaver above a coat of arms, flanked by two wreaths)
- Qty 194 struck
Reverse Content:

Legend: BUY THE CANADIAN COPPER COIN CATALOGUE $0.50
Center: NUMISMATIC ATLAS / FOR CANADA / $1.50 AND $2.00 / AND COLLECTORS / VADE MECUM $1.00 / BY / JOs LeROUX M.D. / MONTREAL / CANADA
- English version of Br-583.
Br-585
1891
Business
Card
Token
Obverse Content:

Legend: ILLUSTRE ET DE CRIT TOUTES LES MONNAIES ET LES MEDAILLES DU CANADA ("K&S" near rim at the bottom)
Center: (book with "LE MEDAILLIER DU CANADA PAR JOS. LEROUX M.D. MONTREAL" on the cover)
- 1000 copper tokens struck in 1891
- This token is the French language version of Br-586
Reverse Content:

Legend & Center: OUVERAGE HONORE D'UNE SOUSCRIPTION PAR LE GOVERNEMENT FRANCAIS 2000 GRAVURES PRIX $5.00 L'EXEMPLAIRE
 
Br-586
1891
Business
Card
Token
Obverse Content:

Legend: ILLUSTRATES & DESCRIBES ALL CANADIAN COINS & MEDALS (K&S)
Center: (book with "CANADIAN COIN CABINET BY JOS. LEROUX M.D. MONTREAL" on the cover)
- 1000 copper tokens struck in 1891
- This token is the English language version of Br-585
Reverse Content:

Legend & Center: THIS WORK HAS BEEN HONOURED WITH A SUBSCRIPTION FROM THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT OVER 2000 ILLUSTRATIONS PRICE $5.00
 
Br-587
1891
Annual
Membership
Token
Obverse Content:

Legend: CLUB D'ECHECS ET DE DAMES CANADIEN FRANCAIS DE MONTREAL CANADA
Center: (image of a chess board)
This checker club, that had been in existence for ten years, was amalgamated with the chess club in 1891, and the annual subscription was fixed at $3.00.
Reverse Content:

Legend & Center: BON POUR UNE ANNEE DE SOUSCRIPTION
 
Br-587A
1890
 Commemorative 
Token
Obverse Content:

Legend: CLUB D'ECHECS ET DE DAMES CANADIEN FRANCAIS DE MONTREAL CANADA
Center: (image of a chess board)
 
Reverse Content:

Legend & Center: FERD. RIENDEAU CHAMPION DES JOUERS DE DAMES DU CANADA 1890
 
Br-587B
1897
 Commemorative 
Token
Obverse Content:

Legend: CLUB D'ECHECS ET DE DAMES CANADIEN FRANCAIS DE MONTREAL CANADA
Center: (image of a chess board)
 
Reverse Content:

Legend & Center: L.O. MAILLE CHAMPION DES JOUERS DE DAMES DU CANADA 1897
 
Br-588
1889
30 Sous
Admission
Token
Obverse Content:

Legend & Center: JARDIN GUILBAULT DE MONTREAL
- Admission token to Guilbault's Gardens in Montreal.
- Qty 98 of the order of 500 were struck before the dies broke.
- The intended admission fee was 30 sous, (25 cents) but as the admission had always been 15 sous (12-1/2 cents), the coin was refused.
Reverse Content:

Legend & Center: ADMISSION 30 SOUS
 
Br-588A
1889
30 Sous
Admission
Token
Obverse Content:

Legend & Center: JARDIN GUILBAULT DE MONTREAL
- Admission token to Guilbault's Gardens in Montreal
- Unknown quantity of silver tokens were struck.
Reverse Content:

Legend & Center: ADMISSION 30 SOUS
 
Br-589
1887
5 Cents
Obverse Content:

Center: (German eagle with a crown over its head and a German crest on its chest) L L
Used in a German club on St. Catherine street in Montreal.
Reverse Content:

Legend: GESANGVEREIN TEUTONIA MONTREAL
Center: GUT FUR 5 CENTS
 
Br-590
1887 (?)
5 Cents
Obverse Content:

Legend: PRINZ HEINRICH
Center: (Image of Prince Heinrich of Prussia, facing forward)
The series of Br-591 to Br-605 were struck as mules with the obverse die of Br-589, and the obverses of small Jetons struck in commemoration of different kings and other rulers who reigned in Europe during the last fifty years of the 19th century.
Reverse Content:

Legend: GESANGVEREIN TEUTONIA MONTREAL
Center: GUT FUR 5 CENTS
 
Br-591
1887 (?)
5 Cents
Obverse Content:

Legend: ALFONSO XII
Center: (Image of King Alfonso XII of Spain, facing right)
The series of Br-591 to Br-605 were struck as mules with the obverse die of Br-589, and the obverses of small Jetons struck in commemoration of different kings and other rulers who reigned in Europe during the last fifty years of the 19th century.
Reverse Content:

Legend: GESANGVEREIN TEUTONIA MONTREAL
Center: GUT FUR 5 CENTS
 
Br-592
1887 (?)
5 Cents
Obverse Content:

Legend: CHRISTIAN IX K.AF DANM.
Center: (Image of King Christian IX of Denmark, facing right)
The series of Br-591 to Br-605 were struck as mules with the obverse die of Br-589, and the obverses of small Jetons struck in commemoration of different kings and other rulers who reigned in Europe during the last fifty years of the 19th century.
Reverse Content:

Legend: GESANGVEREIN TEUTONIA MONTREAL
Center: GUT FUR 5 CENTS
 
Br-593
1887 (?)
5 Cents
Obverse Content:

Legend: QUEEN VICTORIA
Center: (Image of Queen Victoria of England, facing left)
The series of Br-591 to Br-605 were struck as mules with the obverse die of Br-589, and the obverses of small Jetons struck in commemoration of different kings and other rulers who reigned in Europe during the last fifty years of the 19th century.
Reverse Content:

Legend: GESANGVEREIN TEUTONIA MONTREAL
Center: GUT FUR 5 CENTS
 
Br-594
1887 (?)
5 Cents
Obverse Content:

Legend: PIUS . IX PONT:MAX:
Center: (Image of Pope Pius IX, facing left)
The series of Br-591 to Br-605 were struck as mules with the obverse die of Br-589, and the obverses of small Jetons struck in commemoration of different kings and other rulers who reigned in Europe during the last fifty years of the 19th century.
Reverse Content:

Legend: GESANGVEREIN TEUTONIA MONTREAL
Center: GUT FUR 5 CENTS
 
Br-595
1887 (?)
5 Cents
Obverse Content:

Legend: NAPOLEON III KAISER VON FRANKREICH
Center: (Image of Emperor Napoleon III of France, facing right)
The series of Br-591 to Br-605 were struck as mules with the obverse die of Br-589, and the obverses of small Jetons struck in commemoration of different kings and other rulers who reigned in Europe during the last fifty years of the 19th century.
Reverse Content:

Legend: GESANGVEREIN TEUTONIA MONTREAL
Center: GUT FUR 5 CENTS
 
Br-596
1887 (?)
5 Cents
Obverse Content:

Legend: ALFONSO XIII POR LA G:DE:DIOS 1891
Center: (Image of the child King Alfonso XIII of Spain, facing left)
The series of Br-591 to Br-605 were struck as mules with the obverse die of Br-589, and the obverses of small Jetons struck in commemoration of different kings and other rulers who reigned in Europe during the last fifty years of the 19th century.
Reverse Content:

Legend: GESANGVEREIN TEUTONIA MONTREAL
Center: GUT FUR 5 CENTS
 
Br-597
1887 (?)
5 Cents
Obverse Content:

Legend: Ge GARIBALDI NE A NICE 1807
Center: (Image of General Giuseppe Garibaldi of Italy, facing forward)
The series of Br-591 to Br-605 were struck as mules with the obverse die of Br-589, and the obverses of small Jetons struck in commemoration of different kings and other rulers who reigned in Europe during the last fifty years of the 19th century.
Reverse Content:

Legend: GESANGVEREIN TEUTONIA MONTREAL
Center: GUT FUR 5 CENTS
 
Br-598
1887 (?)
5 Cents
Obverse Content:

Legend: 50 JAHR : PRIESTER-JUBILAUM 1837-1887 / LEO . XIII . PONT:MAX:
Center: (Image of Pope Leo XIII, facing forward)
The series of Br-591 to Br-605 were struck as mules with the obverse die of Br-589, and the obverses of small Jetons struck in commemoration of different kings and other rulers who reigned in Europe during the last fifty years of the 19th century.
Reverse Content:

Legend: GESANGVEREIN TEUTONIA MONTREAL
Center: GUT FUR 5 CENTS
 
Br-599
1887 (?)
5 Cents
Obverse Content:

Legend: KAISER WILHELM
Center: (Image of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, facing right)
The series of Br-591 to Br-605 were struck as mules with the obverse die of Br-589, and the obverses of small Jetons struck in commemoration of different kings and other rulers who reigned in Europe during the last fifty years of the 19th century.
Reverse Content:

Legend: GESANGVEREIN TEUTONIA MONTREAL
Center: GUT FUR 5 CENTS
 
 
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