1873 CANADIAN TOKEN- PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND LADY¿S SLIPPER IN SOUTH AFRICA

Obverse Lady’s Slipper flower with bilingual English/French name above and below Lettering:   LADY’S SLIPPER  SABOT DE LA VIEGRGE Translation:   Lady’s Slipper flower Reverse Prince Edward Island Coat of Arms/flag and date Lettering:   PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND  1873 ÎLE-DU-PRINCE-EDOUARD Edge Smooth Comments Starting in the 1960s, customers who filled their vehicle up with gasoline at a Shell Oil station in Canada would receive a free promotional medallion like this one. These medallions came in various themed series - to collect them all, you would need to keep going back to Shell Oil stations. In Canada, medallions were released to commemorate the Prime Ministers, the various provincial coats of arms and provincial flowers, the various provincial animals, and more.