1955 CNA Annual Convention
The second CNA Convention was held at Ottawa’s Chateau Laurier Hotel on September 5 and 6, 1955. The guest speaker was A.P. Williams, the Master of the Royal Canadian Mint. Pritchard-Andrews Co., based out of Ottawa, struck the medal. The obverse die featured the old arms from the City of Ottawa and had been previously used by Pritchard-Andrews for various commemorative medals. Pritchard-Andrews retained the design once more for the CNA’s medal. The reverse die has been lost but featured the wording: “Canadian Numismatic Association – Chapter No. 1 - Ottawa Host to Convention – Sept 7 & 8, 1955.” Regrettably, the medals were struck from clashed dies and a cracked obverse die.
| Specifications | Medal |
|---|---|
| Catalogue No. | CNA-2 |
| Composition | Brass |
| Finish | Bright |
| Weight | 23.4 grams |
| Shape | Circular |
| Diameter | 39.2 mm |
| Die Axis | Upright |
| Edge | Plain |
| Issue Price | $1.00 |
| Mintage | 208 |
Read more about this topic: Royal Canadian Numismatic Association Medals And Awards
Famous quotes containing the words annual and/or convention:
“No annual training or muster of soldiery, no celebration with its scarfs and banners, could import into the town a hundredth part of the annual splendor of our October. We have only to set the trees, or let them stand, and Nature will find the colored drapery,—flags of all her nations, some of whose private signals hardly the botanist can read,—while we walk under the triumphal arches of the elms.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by
convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and space.”
—Democritus (c. 460–400 B.C.)