COIN
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- INDIAN COIN
- Materials
- ALUMINUM
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041648
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- INDIAN COIN
- Date
- 1967
- Materials
- ALUMINUM
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 0.2
- Length
- 1.9
- Width
- 1.9
- Description
- SQUARE ALUMINUM COIN. OBVERSE HAS EMBLEM OF THREE TIGERS SITTING ON A PEDESTAL AND "INDIA". REVERSE HAS SANSKRIT WRITING AND "5" AT MIDDLE WITH "1967" AT BOTTOM CORNER.
- 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 INDIA. 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
- P19970041648
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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