Material Type

Artifact

Other Name

1 PISO FROM PHILIPINES

Date

1972

Materials

SILVER, COPPER

No. Pieces

1

Height

0.2

Diameter

3.2

Description

CIRCULAR SILVER COIN. OBVERSE HAS COAT OF ARMS OF SHIELD WITH THREE STARS, CENTRAL SUN AND EAGLE WITH RAMPANT LION AT BOTTOM. "REPUBLIKA NG PHILIPINES" IS RAISED AROUND EDGE. REVERSE HAS MALE PROFILE WITH "PISO" AND "1" RAISED UPON IT AND "JOSE RIZAL" RAISED BENEATH PROFILE. COIN HAS REDDISH PATINA.

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 THE PHILLIPINES. 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

P19970041644

Acquisition Date

1997-01

Collection

Museum

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