Ae. 39mm. 27.9g. According to Warren Baker’s article, “The Powell and Sutherland Golden Wedding Commemoratives", published in the 1994 ANS volume, Canada’s Money: Coinage of the Americas Conference No. 8: “The Sutherland/Robertson medal, dated September 1, 1831, ranks as the second for the Lower Canadian province, after that of the Quebec Fishing Club.” Later in that article he provides the following biography of Daniel Sutherland:
Daniel Sutherland was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1756 and was in the Province of Quebec at least as early as April 1778. That year he entered into the business of the fur trade as a merchant outfitter with John Porteous of Montreal. By 1781, the partnership with Porteous having been dissolved, he signed an agreement with James Grant. Later that year, he married Margaret Robertson, a daughter of Captain Daniel Robertson, commander of the post of Michilimackinac from 1782-87.
The Sutherland medals, which were struck in copper, silver, and a single example in gold, are rarer than the earlier Powell medals (Leroux-730) on which they were based. Again, I refer to Baker’s article: “The Sutherlands would have had three silver medals struck of which two are known today; the copper specimens were, due to the small size of the family, probably struck in a very limited quantity, accounting for its scarcity today. The gold medal is as yet unlocated, a challenge for some enterprising numismatist.” At the time of writing, only five examples in copper of Leroux-650 were known to him, this being one of them.
Ex: Saul Hendler; Warren Baker.
Ae. 39mm. 27.9g. According to Warren Baker’s article, “The Powell and Sutherland Golden Wedding Commemoratives", published in the 1994 ANS volume, Canada’s Money: Coinage of the Americas Conference No. 8: “The Sutherland/Robertson medal, dated September 1, 1831, ranks as the second for the Lower Canadian province, after that of the Quebec Fishing Club.” Later in that article he provides the following biography of Daniel Sutherland:
Daniel Sutherland was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1756 and was in the Province of Quebec at least as early as April 1778. That year he entered into the business of the fur trade as a merchant outfitter with John Porteous of Montreal. By 1781, the partnership with Porteous having been dissolved, he signed an agreement with James Grant. Later that year, he married Margaret Robertson, a daughter of Captain Daniel Robertson, commander of the post of Michilimackinac from 1782-87.
The Sutherland medals, which were struck in copper, silver, and a single example in gold, are rarer than the earlier Powell medals (Leroux-730) on which they were based. Again, I refer to Baker’s article: “The Sutherlands would have had three silver medals struck of which two are known today; the copper specimens were, due to the small size of the family, probably struck in a very limited quantity, accounting for its scarcity today. The gold medal is as yet unlocated, a challenge for some enterprising numismatist.” At the time of writing, only five examples in copper of Leroux-650 were known to him, this being one of them.
Ex: Saul Hendler; Warren Baker.
