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Upper Canada, brass half penny "sloop" token, Commercial Change / tools, 1833, struck off-center, ex

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Upper Canada, brass half penny  sloop  token, Commercial Change / tools, 1833, struck off-center, ex
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Upper Canada, brass half penny "sloop" token, Commercial Change / tools, 1833, struck off-center, ex-Baker, Faulkner Plate. Breton-731; McLachlan-24; UC-13. 5.05 grams. VF with brassy details, spots of verdigris, the off-center strike rendering about 2mm of blank metal beyond the outer border, reportedly issued by Toronto hardware merchants Watkins & Harris. Pedigreed to the Warren Baker Collection of Canadian coins and tokens, plated and described on pages 325-7 of Coins are Like Songs (2017), by Christopher Faulkner.