Material Type

Artifact

Other Name

GREEK 10 DRACHMA PIECE

Date

1959

Materials

SILVER, NICKEL

No. Pieces

1

Height

0.2

Diameter

3

Description

CIRCULAR SILVER AND NICKEL COIN. OBVERSE HAS "10" AND COAT OF ARMS OF SHIELD WITH CROSS AND CROWN FLANKED BY TWO HUMAN FIGURES HOLDING CLUBS. THE WORD "DRACHMAI" IS RAISED IN GREEK LETTERING ACROSS MIDDLE. GREEK LETTERING AROUND EMBLEM READS "KINGDOM OF GREECE". REVERSE HAS PROFILE OF A MALE HEAD OVER THE DATE "1959". RAISED IN GREEK AROUND PROFILE IS "PAULUS KING OF GREECE".

Subjects

EXCHANGE MEDIUM

Historical Association

COMMEMORATIVE

CURRENCY/MAUNDY

History

COIN BELONGED TO DONOR'S FATHER, REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA, WHO WAS AN ANGLICAN PRIEST WHO TRAVELLED EXTENSIVELY AS A MISSIONARY AND SPEAKER FOR THE JAPANESE ANGLICAN COMMUNITY. LIKELY A SOUVENIR FROM A TRIP TO GREECE. THE NAKAYAMA FAMILY WAS ORIGINALLY FROM VANCOUVER BUT MOVED TO COALDALE FOLLOWING THE SECOND WORLD WAR WHEN THEY WERE INTERNED AT SLOCAN CITY IN THE INTERIOR OF BRITISH COLUMBIA BY THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT. THE DONOR'S FATHER, REV. CANON G.G. NAKAYAMA, WAS AN ANGLICAN MINISTER IN VANCOUVER, AND THEN ESTABLISHED THE CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION IN COALDALE IN 1945 WHERE HE SERVED UNTIL 1970. SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.

Catalogue Number

P19970041642

Acquisition Date

1997-01

Collection

Museum

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