Medal Canada British Columbia 1960 to 1976
Hi Nathan -- Thanks for sending in your request (BTW, you did ok on spelling and grammar, but keep working on them. Today most kids have lost touch with language skills due to the influence of the Internet. Good writing will always be important to a good career.)
What you have is not a coin, but a medal that was manufactured during the mid 1900s, not during 1871 as indicated. The year 1871 is the year British Columbia entered the Canadian Confederation and the medal was made to commemorate this fact. The Pacific dogwood is BC's provincial flower.
It turns out a gasoline company produced many of these medals for each of the Canadian provinces and gave them away as sales promotions starting around 1967. As such, the value of these medals is not particularly high. If you can find one in beautiful condition, it may sell for a few US dollars, as high as $20 for fully uncirculated. Most of them are pretty well beat up by now, so they are worth less than $1. The example in our picture might sell for a three or four dollars.
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Coin: 11727, Genre: Medals, Timeline: Modern
Created (yyyymm): 201206, Last review: 201705
Appearance: Normal round coin Metallic brown Letters: Latin
Years: sort: 1960, filter: 1960 to 1976
Image: canada_british_columbia_medal.jpg
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