1977

Lot of six Canada copper tokens: one contemporary cast counterfeit penny token, date not visible (18

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Lot of six Canada copper tokens: one contemporary cast counterfeit penny token, date not visible (18
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Lot of six Canada copper tokens: one contemporary cast counterfeit penny token, date not visible (1814), Trade & Navigation; one penny token, 1838, Trade & Navigation; one heavily gilt copper half penny Tiffin token, George III, 1812; one half penny token, 1813, Trade & Navigation; and two half penny "Wellington" tokens, no date (ca. 1813), Field Marshal Wellington, struck over Bristol half pennies. Br-962, NS-20B; Br-967, C-14, NS-22A; Br-960, C-24, LC-48-24; Br-965, C-16, NS-21A3; Br-971, C-30, WE-2A2 (two). A very interesting lot in a range of grades (VF to AU), the gilt 1812 Tiffin essentially UNC but with traces of brooch-mount on reverse, the 1838 with traces of striking over earlier issue (obverse), and both of the Wellingtons struck over Bristol half pence (one with HALF PENNY clearly visible on bust), one of them with traces of light diagonal reeding on edge (possibly the rare WE-2A3). For the Tiffin tokens, see Courteau's February 1934 The Numismatist article "The Canadian Bust and Commerce Tokens or The So-Styled 'Tiffin Tokens'". For the Wellington tokens, see Courteau's 1914 article "The Wellington Tokens Relating to Canada" in Vol. 48 of the American Journal of Numismatics. Pedigreed to the Warren Baker Collection of Canadian coins and tokens.