Token Photo |
Breton Cat # |
Year Denom |
Token Information |
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Br-566 |
1849 Business Card Token |
Obverse Content:
Legend: MAYSENHOLDER & BOHLE / GOLD SMITHS
Center: ESTABLISHED 1849 |
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Reverse Content:
Legend: CORNER ST. VINCENT & NOTRE DAME
Center: (Rose) MONTREAL. (Beaver) |
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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 |
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Br-572 |
???
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Obverse Content:
Legend: (none)
Center: (Eight playing cards fanned around the king of hearts) |
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Reverse Content:
Legend: (none)
Center: (Eight playing cards fanned around the ace of hearts) |
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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) |
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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 |
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Br-574 |
1887 Business Card Token |
Obverse Content:
Legend: L. GNAEDINGER, SON & Co. / MONTREAL
Center: (corner view of a building) |
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Reverse Content:
Legend: ESTABLISHED / 1852
Center: FURS HATS CAPS |
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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 |
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Reverse Content:
Legend: MOOSE HEAD BRAND GUARANTEES BEST MATERIAL & WORKMANSHIP / Reg'd
Center: (image of a bull moose head) TRADE-MARK |
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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) |
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Br-576 |
1886 Business Card Token |
Obverse Content:
Legend: E.A. CARDINAL / MONTREAL
Center: NUMISMATIST |
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Reverse Content:
Legend: MONTREAL
Center: (image of a beaver eating a maple twig) 1886 / M.E.L. |
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Br-577 |
1886 Business Card Token |
Obverse Content:
Legend: E.A. CARDINAL / MONTREAL
Center: NUMISMATIST |
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Reverse Content:
Legend: MONTREAL / CANADA
Center: (image of a beaver eating a maple twig) 1886 / M.E.L. |
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Br-578 |
Business Card Token |
Obverse Content:
Legend: E.A. CARDINAL / MONTREAL
Center: COLLECTOR OF RARE COINS |
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Reverse Content:
Legend: RARE COINS
Center: BOUGHT, SOLD & EXCHANGED |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Br-580 |
Business Card Token |
Obverse Content:
Legend: M.E. LYMBURNER / MONTREAL. CANADA
Center: GOLD / SILVER & NICKEL / PLATER / 485 / St JAMES St |
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Reverse Content:
Legend: MANMUFACTURER OF / BRASS MOULDER & FINISHER
Center: CARRIAGE & HARNESS / (maple leaf) / TRIMMINGS. |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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Reverse Content:
Legend & Center: FERD. RIENDEAU CHAMPION DES JOUERS DE DAMES DU CANADA 1890 |
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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) |
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Reverse Content:
Legend & Center: L.O. MAILLE CHAMPION DES JOUERS DE DAMES DU CANADA 1897 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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