Material Type

Artifact

Other Name

TOY MONEY

Date Range From

1970

Date Range To

1980

Materials

PLASTIC

No. Pieces

1

Height

0.1

Diameter

2.1

Description

BRASS COLOURED CIRCULAR PLASTIC COIN. OBVERSE HAS AN EAGLE WITH SPREAD WINGS RAISED IN MIDDLE WITH "HONG KONG" ALONG EDGE ABOVE IT. REVERSE HAS PHOENIX EMBLEM WITH "10" IN CENTER AND SCROLL BANNER ACROSS BOTTOM WHICH READS "PLAY MONEY".

Subjects

TOY

Historical Association

COMMEMORATIVE

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 HONG KONG. 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

P19970041651

Acquisition Date

1997-01

Collection

Museum

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