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CANADA: AV 1/2 dollar token (0.59g), 1849. EF-AU

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / World Coins - The Americas Start Price:85.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 150.00 USD
CANADA: AV 1/2 dollar token (0.59g), 1849. EF-AU
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150.00USD+ (28.50) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2019 Sep 14 @ 17:45UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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CANADA: AV ½ dollar token (0.59g), 1849, Greene-110, Athenian helmeted head facing left, eight five-pointed, stars in front and seven behind, date below, joined beads around // "1/2" surrounded by wreath, large American-style shield below, joined beads around, reeded edge, EF-AU. Likely struck by Jacoby Bros. Ltd. in Vancouver. The firm of Jacoby Bros. Ltd., Manufacturing Jewelers was founded by Alfred James Jacoby, better known as "Dick" Jacoby in 1909. The family had come from Altona, Germany to Tacoma, Washington in 1892. In Tacoma Jacoby went into the dry goods business and became an American citizen. In 1900, at age 14, Dick Jacoby started work with Mayer Bros. in Seattle where he learned the manufacturing jewelry trade. In 1905 he moved to Vancouver, B.C. where he started to work for Geo. E. Trorey, manufacturing and retail jewelers. Trorey sold out in 1907 to the Henry Birks & Sons chain, but continued to manage the store for the new owners. By 1908 Jacoby had become Trorey's head jeweler. That year he was offered, and accepted, a job to manage a jeweler's factory in Nanaimo, [on Vancouver Island, about 30 miles due west of Vancouver] at a 50% increase in pay. In less than a year the factory was closed and Jacoby bought the equipment and returned to Vancouver where he set up in business in October 1909 with $500.00 in capital. The date of "1849" on the token may refer to the fact that Jacoby was at one time an American citizen and 1849 was such an important date for the American west.