A silverish coin with a smiling caricature of former BC premier W.A.C. Bennett and the inscription "Bank of B.C. / One Bennett"

Lots of talk about Alberta separatism of late, but other western provinces have considered going it alone in the past. Is this odd coin a relic of a BC independence movement in the 1960s? Not quite... a short 🧵 #cdnpoli #cdnhist #bchist #exonumia

oval gilded bronze medal: man with turban-like head covering facing left inscription: Marat

Turning to more pleasant topics: Today is the birth anniversary of the great French Revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat, 1743: neither as good as his adulators believed nor as evil as his detractors charged.

Many commemorative medals employed some variation of this portrait bust. Unidentified, early C19