. Castorologia, or The history and traditions of the Canadian beaver. Beavers. THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY'S BEAVER TOKEN. y&, }i, %, and also i, for the full unit ; below which, in the orig- inal design appeared the letters M. B., in monogram as it was cus- tomary to write them, thus IVB, signifying "made-beaver" The de- sign was approved of, the dies ordered, and in due course the tokens were forwarded for distribution among the posts in the East Main district, when with disappointment it was found that the monogram , had been misinterpreted by the die-cutters as the separate
. Castorologia, or The history and traditions of the Canadian beaver. Beavers. THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY'S BEAVER TOKEN. y&, }i, %, and also i, for the full unit ; below which, in the orig- inal design appeared the letters M. B., in monogram as it was cus- tomary to write them, thus IVB, signifying "made-beaver" The de- sign was approved of, the dies ordered, and in due course the tokens were forwarded for distribution among the posts in the East Main district, when with disappointment it was found that the monogram , had been misinterpreted by the die-cutters as the separate letters , incorrectly drawn. This curious error has led to the belief that the '' made beaver '' was sometimes called a '' natural beaver,'' but this was not the case. The extreme value attached by numismatists to the beaver tokens of the North West Company, prepared the way for the following ex- traordinary piece of fraud. Some years after the circulation of the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Martin, Horace T. Montreal, W. Drysdale
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