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1/2 Penny - George IV
| Issuer | Nova Scotia |
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| Year | 1824 |
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| Currency | Pound (1812-1860) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of George IV facing left, the head encircled by a wreath. The peripheral legend PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA runs along the outer rim in Latin script. The effigy is rendered in a neoclassical style typical of early nineteenth-century colonial token coinage. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Nova Scotia's copper coinage of the 1820s was authorized not by London but by the provincial legislature, which had grown frustrated with the chronic shortage of small change strangling retail trade in Halifax. The 1824 halfpenny was struck in Birmingham, almost certainly by Boulton & Watt's successors at the Soho Mint, whose colonial token contracts were then winding down as British authorities slowly tightened control over provincial monetary arrangements.
Breton 869 is the sole major variety for this date, and survivors in problem-free condition are genuinely scarce — the coins circulated hard through decades of maritime commerce.