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Souvenir Dollar - Shediac, New Brunswick

Location Canada
Year 1988
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Technique Milled
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Obverse description The obverse features the official crest of the Town of Shediac as the central device, depicting a lobster within an oval rope-bordered shield flanked by ribbon banners inscribed with the bilingual town name. The upper legend reads CAPITALE DU HOMARD and the lower legend reads LOBSTER CAPITAL, with INC. 1903 flanking the central device in the field.
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Reverse description The reverse depicts Frolic, the festival mascot — an anthropomorphic lobster character wearing a hat and playing a fiddle while seated on a lobster trap dated 1988. The bilingual legend LOBSTER FESTIVAL DU HOMARD curves around the upper rim, with DOLLAR · SOUVENIR · DOLLAR and the expiry notice Expires/Prend Fin August 30 Août 1988 inscribed in the lower field. The name FROLIC appears twice flanking the central device.
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Reverse lettering LOBSTER FESTIVAL DU HOMARD · Frolic · Frolic · 1988 · DOLLAR · SOUVENIR · DOLLAR · Expires/Prend Fin August 30 Août 1988
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