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Lot of five Montreal, Canada, copper 1 sou / half penny tokens: two City Bank "habitant" tokens, 183

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Lot of five Montreal, Canada, copper 1 sou / half penny tokens: two City Bank  habitant  tokens, 183
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Lot of five Montreal, Canada, copper 1 sou / half penny tokens: two City Bank "habitant" tokens, 1837, one ex-Loye, ex-Cooper; two Bank of Montreal "front view" tokens, 1842 (heavy trees, long-nose beaver, ex-Griffin; and small trees, short-nose beaver, ex-Cooper); and James Duncan & Co, 1830, ex-Oppenheim. Br-522, C-2c var and C-20, LC-8A2 and 8D2; Br-527, PC-1B4 and 1B5; Br-532, LC-13A. All AU or UNC, the Courteau-2c without defect or double-cutting of the S in BAS (nice dark patina), the Courteau-20 with hairline die-break from whip to habitant’s body (not mentioned by Courteau), which almost duplicates the whip (some original luster and red color), the two 1842's with prominent die-breaks on obverse. Pedigreed to the Warren Baker Collection of Canadian coins and tokens, and to the Loye Collection, the Richard Cooper Collection (Geoffrey Bell auctions of October 2015, lot 103, and April 2016, lot 735), the Jack Griffin Collection, and the Michael Oppenheim Collection (9/2019).