Medals

QUEBEC Pope Pius IX Memorial 29.62mm white metal medal 9.24 grams with integral loop Leroux 1641 Obverse: Pope facing left, SOUVENIR Reverse: HIS HOLINESS PIUS IX / BORN / 13TH MAY 1792 / DIED / 7TH FEBY 1878 / WAS 32 YEARS A POPE

ONTARIO Toronto Goodyear Welt Advertising Token 38mm white metal medal 6.55 grams, Engraved by Camille L. Chapelle, struck by Scovill Manufacturing Company (Leroux 995x, McColl 129) Obverse: palm side of hand, FLAX / TRADE MARK / SHOES DEWED WITH BARBOUR'S LINEN THREAD / THE BEST FOR SHOP / OR FAMILY USE Reverse: ribbon on globe, TRADE / GOODYEA...

QUEBEC Joliette Seminary 1897 41mm lightly gilt white metal 29.02 grams with integral loop Leroux 1235iObverse: building at centre, SEMINARIUN JOLIETTENSE / 1897Reverse: building at centre, DUM SPIRO SPERO / 1846 / C. TISON (Trans: While I Breathe I Hope)Barthélemy Joliette founded in the school in 1846. Part of his plan was to do away with the ...

QUEBEC 1880 St-Jean de Baptiste National Convention 37.9 white metal medal 16.57 grams with integral loop (Leroux 1735, McLachlan 190, Charlton 2865-25-2A) Obverse: St John the Baptist with crossed boughs of maple leaves, SOCIETE ST. JEAN BAPTISTE DE QUEBEC / NOS INSTITUTIONS NOTRE LANGUE ET NOS LOIS Reverse: a settler holding a flag in his righ...

ONTARIO Toronto 1884 Semi-Centennial 39.64mm lead? 30.84 grams by Rolph Smith & Co. Leroux 1818What is unusual about this piece it appears to be cast, and weighs approximately 50% more than the struck piece.

QUEBEC Ludger Gravel Premier Prix d’Arithmetique 38.09mm bronze medal 23.93 gramsObverse: conjoined busts of Pope Sylvester II and King Solomon facing right, MEDAILLE LUDGER GRAVEL / SYLVESTRE II / ROI SALOMON / CARON MONTREALReverse: wreath of oak leaves, PREMIER PRIX D'ARTHMETIQUEEdge: plainLudger Gravel (1864-1933) was a prominent Canadian nu...