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Upper Canada, copper half penny "Brock" token, dated 1816, cherubs' heads under TH and R, oval wreat

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Upper Canada, copper half penny  Brock  token, dated 1816, cherubs' heads under TH and R, oval wreat
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Upper Canada, copper half penny "Brock" token, dated 1816, cherubs' heads under TH and R, oval wreath, base of urn flat, three-step pedestal, tops of 1's flat, right foot of last A in CANADA pointing to step, medal axis, ex-Baker. Breton-724; McLachlan-5; Faulkner-5.1; UC-6A6. 4.65 grams. UNC or close to it, with die-rusted urn but good luster and very light rainbow coloration. Like the previous lot, this issue is a memorial to Major General Sir Isaac Brock after his death in the Battle of Queenston Heights in 1812. Despite its 1816 date, Breton believed the obverse was a representation of the actual monument erected on the battlefield, but that monument was not built until 1823-4 (destroyed by a vandal in 1840 and then replaced with a new column in the 1850s). It is unknown what the date 1816 actually represents unless it is simply the date some patriotic merchant decided to issue these tokens (per McLachlan). It is now widely believed the Brock tokens may have been struck in New York and not Birmingham, as stated McLachlan. Pedigreed to the Warren Baker Collection of Canadian coins and tokens and to the Montreal Stamp & Coin auction of June 2002 (part of lot 528).