Description: Starting in the 1960's, customers who filled their vehicle up with gasoline at a Shell Oil station in Canada would receive a free promotional medallion token. These tokens were released in various theme series and to collect them all, they need to keep going back to Shell Oil stations. In Canada, medallions were released to commemorate the Prime Ministers, the various provincial coats of arms and provincial flowers.The symbols depicted is taken from the Coat of Arms assigned by Royal Warrant of Queen Victoria on May 26, 1868. The violet is the provincial flower of New Brunswick. The flower was adopted as the New Brunswick floral emblem in 1936, at the request of the provincial Women's Institute, the Lieutenant Governor and New Brunswick schoolchildren. OBVERSE: A Purple Violet flower, bilingual inscription above and below.Lettering: PURPLE VIOLET VIOLETTE CUCULEEREVERSE: Shield of arms of New Brunswick, bilingual inscriptionLettering: NEW BRUNSWICK 1867 NOUVEAU-BRUNSWICKEDGE: SmoothCountry New Brunswick CanadaType Promotional Gas TokenSeries Floral Emblems and Arms of CanadaYears 1965-1968Composition Brass plated zincWeight 12 gSize 31.65 mmThickness 2.1 mmShape RoundOrientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Price: 11.34 AUD
Location: STRATHPINE
End Time: 2025-01-11T06:28:14.000Z
Shipping Cost: 2.47 AUD
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Composition: Brass plated zinc
Era: 1960s
Product Type: Token
Country: Canada
Region of Origin: Central America & Canada
