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Endymion - This is Your Life New Orleans, Louisiana

Location United States
Year 1988
Type Event token
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Obverse description The obverse features a richly detailed relief scene depicting New Orleans imagery: a jazz musician playing a trombone at left, multiple portrait busts in the lower field, and a cityscape with a church steeple and colonial architecture at center-right. The date 1988 appears prominently in the field, with the legend NEW ORLEANS arcing along the upper rim and a scroll banner in the lower field inscribed THIS IS YOUR LIFE. Designed by Blaine Kern Artists.
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Reverse description The reverse displays the Krewe of Endymion's ornate device: a central fleur-de-lis on a shield surrounded by elaborate scrollwork and mythological sea creatures, with a crowned jester figure at the top and the founding year 1967 below it. The legend ENDYMION arcs along the upper rim in decorative script, and the lower field bears the inscription TOKEN OF YOUTH / NEW ORLEANS · MARDI GRAS along the border. Designed by Blaine Kern Artists.
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Mintage 1988
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