Token Photo

Breton
Cat #

Year
Denom

Token Information

Br-566

1849
Business
Card
Token

Obverse Content:

Legend: MAYSENHOLDER & BOHLE / GOLD SMITHS
Center: ESTABLISHED 1849

 

Reverse Content:

Legend: CORNER ST. VINCENT & NOTRE DAME
Center: (Rose) MONTREAL. (Beaver)

 

Br-571

Business
Card
Token

Obverse Content:

Legend: MAISON JACQUES CARTIER / QUEBEC
Center: (beaver with a branch in its mouth) St ROCH

There are two varieties of obverse - Short Whiskers and Long Whiskers

Reverse Content:

Legend: UN CENTIN PAYABLE / QUEBEC
Center: CHEZ / H. GAGNON & CIE / RUE LA COURONNE / St ROCH

 

Br-572

???

Obverse Content:

Legend: (none)
Center: (Eight playing cards fanned around the king of hearts)

 

Reverse Content:

Legend: (none)
Center: (Eight playing cards fanned around the ace of hearts)

 

Br-573

1886
Business
Card
Token

Obverse Content:

Legend: MONTREAL FONDEE EN 1642 / 1837 - 1866 - 1885
Center: (beaver cutting a branch from a tree) / ("A. Desroches. Numismate. MONTREAL" inside a decorative frame) / APPEL AUX ARMES / 1752-1812 (Fleur-de-Lis)

 

Reverse Content:

Legend: "INAUGURES A MONTREAL" flanked by a pair of maple branches
Center: "IMPRIMERIE 1778. JOURNAL 1778. VAPEUR 1809. CHEMIN DE FER 1836. GAZ 1837. PHOTOGRAPHIE 1842. TELEGRAPHE 1848. MACHINE A COUDRE 1850. CHAR URBAIN 1863. TELEPHONE 1880 LUMIERE ELECTRIQUE 1883" all inside a shield / "C. TISON" below the shield

 

Br-574

1887
Business
Card
Token

Obverse Content:

Legend: L. GNAEDINGER, SON & Co. / MONTREAL
Center: (corner view of a building)

 

Reverse Content:

Legend: ESTABLISHED / 1852
Center: FURS HATS CAPS

 

Br-574A

1902
Business
Card
Token

Obverse Content:

Legend: L. GNAEDINGER SON & Co. MONTREAL / FURS
Center: FIFTY YEARS OF SUCCESS (star with rays projecting out of it) 1852-1902

 

Reverse Content:

Legend: MOOSE HEAD BRAND GUARANTEES BEST MATERIAL & WORKMANSHIP / Reg'd
Center: (image of a bull moose head) TRADE-MARK

 

Br-575

1887
Business
Card
Token

Obverse Content:

Legend: D. DESJARDINS / MONTREAL
Center: MARCHAND / TAILLEUR

(Token has a ring attached to the top)

Reverse Content:

Legend: ETABLIS EN / 1885
Center: (image of an opened pair of scissors surrounded by a ring of string or thread)

 

Br-576

1886
Business
Card
Token

Obverse Content:

Legend: E.A. CARDINAL / MONTREAL
Center: NUMISMATIST

 

Reverse Content:

Legend: MONTREAL
Center: (image of a beaver eating a maple twig) 1886 / M.E.L.

 

Br-577

1886
Business
Card
Token

Obverse Content:

Legend: E.A. CARDINAL / MONTREAL
Center: NUMISMATIST

 

Reverse Content:

Legend: MONTREAL / CANADA
Center: (image of a beaver eating a maple twig) 1886 / M.E.L.

 

Br-578

Business
Card
Token

Obverse Content:

Legend: E.A. CARDINAL / MONTREAL
Center: COLLECTOR OF RARE COINS

 

Reverse Content:

Legend: RARE COINS
Center: BOUGHT, SOLD & EXCHANGED

 

Br-579

1871
Business
Card
Token

Obverse Content:

Legend: LYMBURNER & BROTHER / MONTREAL
Center: GOLD AND SILVER PLATERS 663 CRAIG, STREET

Note:
- Thin planchet is original issue by Lymburner
- Thick planchet is one of 100 copies struck by Dr.J. Leroux some time after 1878.

Reverse Content:

Legend: LYMBURNER & FRERE
Center: DOREURS ET ARGENETEURS / 663 RUE CRAIG. / MONTREAL

 

Br-579A

Business
Card
Token

Obverse Content:

Legend: LYMBURNER & MATHEWS / MONTREAL
Center: (none)

- All lettering is incuse

Reverse Content:

Legend: (none)
Center: 5 / A D

- All lettering is incuse

Br-579B

Business
Card
Token

Obverse Content:

Legend: LYMBURNER & MATHEWS / MONTREAL
Center: (none)

- All lettering is incuse

Reverse Content:

Legend: (none)
Center: 5 / J W M

- All lettering is incuse

Br-580

Business
Card
Token

Obverse Content:

Legend: M.E. LYMBURNER / MONTREAL. CANADA
Center: GOLD / SILVER & NICKEL / PLATER / 485 / St JAMES St

 

Reverse Content:

Legend: MANMUFACTURER OF / BRASS MOULDER & FINISHER
Center: CARRIAGE & HARNESS / (maple leaf) / TRIMMINGS.

 

Br-581

1886
Business
Card
Token

Obverse Content:

Legend: FOR THE COMFORT OF SLEIGHS USE LYMBURNER'S HEATER
Center: (image of a woman's foot resting on a sleigh heater)

 

Reverse Content:

Legend: MONTREAL / CANADA
Center: (image of a beaver eating a maple twig) 1886 / M.E.L.

Uses the obverse die from Br-577

Br-582

1885
Business
Card
Token

Obverse Content:

Legend: BUY THE CANADIAN COPPER COIN CATALOGUE $0.50
Center: NUMISMATIC ATLAS / FOR CANADA / $1.50 AND $2.00 / AND COLLECTORS / VADE MECUM $1.00 / BY / JOs LeROUX M.D. / MONTREAL / CANADA

Quantity of Two hundred struck in December of 1885.

Reverse Content:

Legend: ACHTEZ LE CANADIAN COPPER COIN CATALOGUE $0.50
Center: L'ATLAS NUMISMATIQUE / DU CANADA / $1.50 ET $2.00 / ET LE VADE MECUM DU / COLLECTIONNEUR / $1.00 / PAR / JOs LeROUX M.D. / MONTREAL / CANADA

 

Br-583

1886
Business
Card
Token

Obverse Content:

Legend: LABOR IMPROBUS OMNIA VINCIT
Center: (beaver above a coat of arms, flanked by two wreaths)

- Qty 86 struck

Reverse Content:

Legend: ACHTEZ LE CANADIAN COPPER COIN CATALOGUE $0.50
Center: L'ATLAS NUMISMATIQUE / DU CANADA / $1.50 ET $2.00 / ET LE VADE MECUM DU / COLLECTIONNEUR / $1.00 / PAR / JOs LeROUX M.D. / MONTREAL / CANADA

- French version of Br-584.

Br-584

1886
Business
Card
Token

Obverse Content:

Legend: LABOR IMPROBUS OMNIA VINCIT
Center: (beaver above a coat of arms, flanked by two wreaths)

- Qty 194 struck

Reverse Content:

Legend: BUY THE CANADIAN COPPER COIN CATALOGUE $0.50
Center: NUMISMATIC ATLAS / FOR CANADA / $1.50 AND $2.00 / AND COLLECTORS / VADE MECUM $1.00 / BY / JOs LeROUX M.D. / MONTREAL / CANADA

- English version of Br-583.

Br-585

1891
Business
Card
Token

Obverse Content:

Legend: ILLUSTRE ET DE CRIT TOUTES LES MONNAIES ET LES MEDAILLES DU CANADA ("K&S" near rim at the bottom)
Center: (book with "LE MEDAILLIER DU CANADA PAR JOS. LEROUX M.D. MONTREAL" on the cover)

- 1000 copper tokens struck in 1891
- This token is the French language version of Br-586

Reverse Content:

Legend & Center: OUVERAGE HONORE D'UNE SOUSCRIPTION PAR LE GOVERNEMENT FRANCAIS 2000 GRAVURES PRIX $5.00 L'EXEMPLAIRE

 

Br-586

1891
Business
Card
Token

Obverse Content:

Legend: ILLUSTRATES & DESCRIBES ALL CANADIAN COINS & MEDALS (K&S)
Center: (book with "CANADIAN COIN CABINET BY JOS. LEROUX M.D. MONTREAL" on the cover)

- 1000 copper tokens struck in 1891
- This token is the English language version of Br-585

Reverse Content:

Legend & Center: THIS WORK HAS BEEN HONOURED WITH A SUBSCRIPTION FROM THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT OVER 2000 ILLUSTRATIONS PRICE $5.00

 

Br-587

1891
Annual
Membership
Token

Obverse Content:

Legend: CLUB D'ECHECS ET DE DAMES CANADIEN FRANCAIS DE MONTREAL CANADA
Center: (image of a chess board)

This checker club, that had been in existence for ten years, was amalgamated with the chess club in 1891, and the annual subscription was fixed at $3.00.

Reverse Content:

Legend & Center: BON POUR UNE ANNEE DE SOUSCRIPTION

 

Br-587A

1890
 Commemorative 
Token

Obverse Content:

Legend: CLUB D'ECHECS ET DE DAMES CANADIEN FRANCAIS DE MONTREAL CANADA
Center: (image of a chess board)

 

Reverse Content:

Legend & Center: FERD. RIENDEAU CHAMPION DES JOUERS DE DAMES DU CANADA 1890

 

Br-587B

1897
 Commemorative 
Token

Obverse Content:

Legend: CLUB D'ECHECS ET DE DAMES CANADIEN FRANCAIS DE MONTREAL CANADA
Center: (image of a chess board)

 

Reverse Content:

Legend & Center: L.O. MAILLE CHAMPION DES JOUERS DE DAMES DU CANADA 1897

 

Br-588

1889
30 Sous
Admission
Token

Obverse Content:

Legend & Center: JARDIN GUILBAULT DE MONTREAL

- Admission token to Guilbault's Gardens in Montreal.
- Qty 98 of the order of 500 were struck before the dies broke.
- The intended admission fee was 30 sous, (25 cents) but as the admission had always been 15 sous (12-1/2 cents), the coin was refused.

Reverse Content:

Legend & Center: ADMISSION 30 SOUS

 

Br-588A

1889
30 Sous
Admission
Token

Obverse Content:

Legend & Center: JARDIN GUILBAULT DE MONTREAL

- Admission token to Guilbault's Gardens in Montreal
- Unknown quantity of silver tokens were struck.

Reverse Content:

Legend & Center: ADMISSION 30 SOUS

 

Br-589

1887
5 Cents

Obverse Content:

Center: (German eagle with a crown over its head and a German crest on its chest) L L

Used in a German club on St. Catherine street in Montreal.

Reverse Content:

Legend: GESANGVEREIN TEUTONIA MONTREAL
Center: GUT FUR 5 CENTS

 

Br-590

1887 (?)
5 Cents

Obverse Content:

Legend: PRINZ HEINRICH
Center: (Image of Prince Heinrich of Prussia, facing forward)

The series of Br-591 to Br-605 were struck as mules with the obverse die of Br-589, and the obverses of small Jetons struck in commemoration of different kings and other rulers who reigned in Europe during the last fifty years of the 19th century.

Reverse Content:

Legend: GESANGVEREIN TEUTONIA MONTREAL
Center: GUT FUR 5 CENTS

 

Br-591

1887 (?)
5 Cents

Obverse Content:

Legend: ALFONSO XII
Center: (Image of King Alfonso XII of Spain, facing right)

The series of Br-591 to Br-605 were struck as mules with the obverse die of Br-589, and the obverses of small Jetons struck in commemoration of different kings and other rulers who reigned in Europe during the last fifty years of the 19th century.

Reverse Content:

Legend: GESANGVEREIN TEUTONIA MONTREAL
Center: GUT FUR 5 CENTS

 

Br-592

1887 (?)
5 Cents

Obverse Content:

Legend: CHRISTIAN IX K.AF DANM.
Center: (Image of King Christian IX of Denmark, facing right)

The series of Br-591 to Br-605 were struck as mules with the obverse die of Br-589, and the obverses of small Jetons struck in commemoration of different kings and other rulers who reigned in Europe during the last fifty years of the 19th century.

Reverse Content:

Legend: GESANGVEREIN TEUTONIA MONTREAL
Center: GUT FUR 5 CENTS

 

Br-593

1887 (?)
5 Cents

Obverse Content:

Legend: QUEEN VICTORIA
Center: (Image of Queen Victoria of England, facing left)

The series of Br-591 to Br-605 were struck as mules with the obverse die of Br-589, and the obverses of small Jetons struck in commemoration of different kings and other rulers who reigned in Europe during the last fifty years of the 19th century.

Reverse Content:

Legend: GESANGVEREIN TEUTONIA MONTREAL
Center: GUT FUR 5 CENTS

 

Br-594

1887 (?)
5 Cents

Obverse Content:

Legend: PIUS . IX PONT:MAX:
Center: (Image of Pope Pius IX, facing left)

The series of Br-591 to Br-605 were struck as mules with the obverse die of Br-589, and the obverses of small Jetons struck in commemoration of different kings and other rulers who reigned in Europe during the last fifty years of the 19th century.

Reverse Content:

Legend: GESANGVEREIN TEUTONIA MONTREAL
Center: GUT FUR 5 CENTS

 

Br-595

1887 (?)
5 Cents

Obverse Content:

Legend: NAPOLEON III KAISER VON FRANKREICH
Center: (Image of Emperor Napoleon III of France, facing right)

The series of Br-591 to Br-605 were struck as mules with the obverse die of Br-589, and the obverses of small Jetons struck in commemoration of different kings and other rulers who reigned in Europe during the last fifty years of the 19th century.

Reverse Content:

Legend: GESANGVEREIN TEUTONIA MONTREAL
Center: GUT FUR 5 CENTS

 

Br-596

1887 (?)
5 Cents

Obverse Content:

Legend: ALFONSO XIII POR LA G:DE:DIOS 1891
Center: (Image of the child King Alfonso XIII of Spain, facing left)

The series of Br-591 to Br-605 were struck as mules with the obverse die of Br-589, and the obverses of small Jetons struck in commemoration of different kings and other rulers who reigned in Europe during the last fifty years of the 19th century.

Reverse Content:

Legend: GESANGVEREIN TEUTONIA MONTREAL
Center: GUT FUR 5 CENTS

 

Br-597

1887 (?)
5 Cents

Obverse Content:

Legend: Ge GARIBALDI NE A NICE 1807
Center: (Image of General Giuseppe Garibaldi of Italy, facing forward)

The series of Br-591 to Br-605 were struck as mules with the obverse die of Br-589, and the obverses of small Jetons struck in commemoration of different kings and other rulers who reigned in Europe during the last fifty years of the 19th century.

Reverse Content:

Legend: GESANGVEREIN TEUTONIA MONTREAL
Center: GUT FUR 5 CENTS

 

Br-598

1887 (?)
5 Cents

Obverse Content:

Legend: 50 JAHR : PRIESTER-JUBILAUM 1837-1887 / LEO . XIII . PONT:MAX:
Center: (Image of Pope Leo XIII, facing forward)

The series of Br-591 to Br-605 were struck as mules with the obverse die of Br-589, and the obverses of small Jetons struck in commemoration of different kings and other rulers who reigned in Europe during the last fifty years of the 19th century.

Reverse Content:

Legend: GESANGVEREIN TEUTONIA MONTREAL
Center: GUT FUR 5 CENTS

 

Br-599

1887 (?)
5 Cents

Obverse Content:

Legend: KAISER WILHELM
Center: (Image of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, facing right)

The series of Br-591 to Br-605 were struck as mules with the obverse die of Br-589, and the obverses of small Jetons struck in commemoration of different kings and other rulers who reigned in Europe during the last fifty years of the 19th century.

Reverse Content:

Legend: GESANGVEREIN TEUTONIA MONTREAL
Center: GUT FUR 5 CENTS

 

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