COIN
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- JAPANESE COIN
- Date Range From
- 1970
- Date Range To
- 1980
- Materials
- NICKEL
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041647
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- JAPANESE COIN
- Date Range From
- 1970
- Date Range To
- 1980
- Materials
- NICKEL
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 0.2
- Diameter
- 2.5
- Description
- CIRCULAR NICKEL COIN. OBVERSE HAS ORNATE FLOWER EMBLEM WITH JAPANESE CHARACTERS ABOVE AND BELOW IT. REVERSE HAS "50" WITH JAPANESE CHARACTERS.
- 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 JAPAN. 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
- P19970041647
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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