Medal - Wild Rose Alberta

There are three known sizes in the silver plated versions (50, 32 & 28 mm) and two in the gold plated versions (32 & 50 mm).

There is also a 28 mm looped version - key  chain style.

There are also a few examples known of a “STERLING” stamped (incuse) version of the 50 mm (see below) but the actual silver content remains unconfirmed. They exist for all ten provinces and the two territories of the time (1967).

They are all minted with a raised “ITALY” on the reverse, by Lorioli Medagalie, in the mid to late 1960's.

This is based on this reference, as noted in a January 29, 2012 post to The E-Sylum (Numismatic Bibliomania Society), by Canadian (Eu)Gene Bileski (son of Kasimir Bileski, of Winnipeg, Manitoba), “I did business with Lorioli from 1961 to 1967, and visited with them twice over various projects that I commissioned, i.e. an unfinished Presidential series of 50mm medallions, and another completed project for my father's business in Winnipeg, Canada depicting a provincial map/flower series of medallions in honor of Canada's centenary in 1967."

It is also possible that the engraver Costantino Affer worked on these at the time, but unlike other medals that he produced for Nebraska Numismatics (in the USA) and others, these are unsigned.