Token - Popsicle Gary Cooper ND front Token - Popsicle Gary Cooper ND back
Token - Popsicle Gary Cooper ND photo
© Bobby Harpoon (CC BY)

Token - Popsicle Gary Cooper ND

 
Aluminium 0.8 g 23.75 mm
Description
Location
United States
Type
Medals › Advertising medallions
Composition
Aluminium
Weight
0.8 g
Diameter
23.75 mm
Thickness
0.97 mm
Shape
Round
Orientation
Variable alignment ↺
Updated
2024-11-12
References
Numista
N#364079
Rarity index
100%

Reverse

Legend top and bottom with bar about center.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
PARAMOUNT STAR
IN
"HONOR BRIGHT"

POPSICLE

Edge

Plain

Comment

Popsicle tokens were issued as premiums in Popsicle packages starting in 1933.
Later, in 1937, six were issued and we know for certain these were engraved by German-American engraver Franz Eue. These bore portraits of Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Jean Harlow, Frederick March, Norma Shearer and Johnny Weissmueller. He misspelled Popsicle on the reverse of the Claudette Colbert medal as POPCICLE. Three of these are listed in the Red Book by Katie Jaeger and Dave Bowers, A Guide Book of U.S. Tokens and Medals, page 149.