1/2 Penny George III right

Descrizione del dritto	A schematic, faceless effigy of George III facing right, rendered in a crude and rudimentary style characteristic of emergency or blacksmith coinage. The bust features a broad, plain truncation at the base with no facial detail, no legend, and no decorative elements in the field, reflecting the informal nature of this emergency issue.
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Tiratura	1835: ND (1835)
Informazioni aggiuntive	This piece belongs to a category of semi-official copper and brass tokens that flooded Lower Canada during the 1830s, issued by merchants and entrepreneurs to address a chronic shortage of small change that colonial authorities repeatedly failed to solve. The Bank of Montreal and other institutions eventually attempted to regulate the token trade, but private issues continued circulating freely alongside — and often indistinguishably from — sanctioned coinage. CCT BL-14 is a Bouquet Sou type, struck in Birmingham by contract. The brass composition rather than copper is worth noting: it distinguishes this emission from visually similar pieces and occasionally causes misattribution in mixed lots.