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Upper Canada, copper half penny "Speed the Plough" token, no date (1840), No Labor No Bread, mule wi

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Upper Canada, copper half penny  Speed the Plough  token, no date (1840), No Labor No Bread, mule wi
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Upper Canada, copper half penny "Speed the Plough" token, no date (1840), No Labor No Bread, mule with long floor with thin ground behind man, front of plough far from ox, ex-Oppenheim, ex-Baker. Breton-1010; UC-4A3. 5.95 grams. Light-colored XF with slightly weak rims (as made), a scarce muling of common obverse and reverse dies in coin axis, imported to Upper Canada by the Perrin family. This mule, which Faulkner says "may be the most iconic of Upper Canadian tokens, more iconic than the Brocks, the Leslies, or any of the Sloops," was perhaps first noted in publication when members of the “Denford Numismatic Society” in B. Max Mehl's Numismatic Monthly of August 1909 posted that "Br. 1010 has three vars. The one that is a mule of the other two is much the scarcest, and worth one dollar.” Pedigreed to the Warren Baker Collection of Canadian coins and tokens, and to the Michael Oppenheim Collection (4/2017).