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Five Piece Set of Canadian Arctic Token

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Five Piece Set of Canadian Arctic Token
<B>Five-Piece Set of Canadian Arctic Tokens.</B></I> Aluminum, 19-mm to 40-mm uniface tokens issued by the oldest department store still in business today, opened for business in 1670. The tokens in this lot were in use in the Eastern Canadian Arctic from the middle '40s through the early part of the '60s. The denominations are 5, 10, 25, 50, and 1.00, and all have the letters HBC (Hudson Bay Company) and the denomination incused. The tokens are listed in the standard reference catalog, <I>Medals, Tokens, and Paper Money of the Hudson's Bay Company</B></I> by Larry Gingras. The catalog numbers are 285, 285a, 285b, 285c, and 285d.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Coins & Currency (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)