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| 裏面の説明 | Central device consists of the Arms of the City of Montreal — a quartered heraldic shield displaying a rose, a thistle, a shamrock, and a beaver, enclosed within an oval cartouche and surmounted by the Latin motto CONCORDIA SALUS ('salvation through harmony'). The shield is flanked by a wreath composed of a rose branch to the left and an oak branch to the right, tied at the base. The legend BANK TOKEN arcs across the upper field and HALF PENNY arcs across the lower field, with the date appearing in the exergue below the shield. A secondary legend reading BANK OF MONTREAL is inscribed along the lower arc of the central cartouche. |
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| 裏面の銘文 | CONCORDIA SALUS / BANK OF MONTREAL / BANK TOKEN HALF PENNY / [DATE] |
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The Bank of Montreal tokens were issued to address a chronic small-change shortage in the Canadas during the 1840s, a problem the colonial government repeatedly failed to solve through official channels. Private banks stepped into the vacuum with chartered authority to produce copper tokens redeemable at their branches — a practical arrangement that also, not incidentally, kept specie reserves within the issuing institution.
These pieces circulated alongside a chaotic mix of British regal halfpennies, counterfeits, and other bank tokens, all trading at roughly equivalent value regardless of origin.