Katalog
Vollständige Bilder anzeigen — kostenlose Registrierung
Mit Google fortfahren — kostenlos
oder mit E-Mail registrieren
Warum registrieren? Nur um Bots aus unserem Katalog fernzuhalten. Ihre E-Mail bleibt privat — wir geben sie nie weiter und senden Ihnen nichts Unerwünschtes. Das garantieren wir Ihnen!
1/2 Penny - George IV
| Emittent | Upper Canada |
|---|---|
| Jahr | 1832 |
| Typ | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Nennwert | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Währung | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Material | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Gewicht | 8.6 g |
| Durchmesser | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Dicke | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Form | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Prägetechnik | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Ausrichtung | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Stempelschneider | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Im Umlauf bis | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Referenz(en) | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Aversbeschreibung | Laureate and draped bust of George IV facing left, rendered in high relief with detailed hair and laurel wreath. The effigy is depicted with a classical Roman aesthetic, showing the king's characteristic features including prominent jaw and flowing drapery at the truncation. The circular legend PROVINCE OF UPPER CANADA surrounds the bust, reading from lower left to upper right along the coin's rim. |
|---|---|
| Aversschrift | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Averslegende | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Reversbeschreibung | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Reversschrift | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Reverslegende | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Rand | Engrailed |
| Prägestätte | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Auflage | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Zusätzliche Informationen |
Upper Canada had no official coinage of its own, and the colonial economy relied heavily on a chaotic mixture of British coppers, American cents, and merchant tokens. These halfpennies were struck in Birmingham under contract and shipped across the Atlantic to fill that gap — a private commercial solution to a public monetary problem that the Crown was slow to address. The issue dates to just two years before the influential Currency Act of 1834, which attempted to rationalize the colony's fractured monetary situation.
Breton 732 is well documented among Canadian colonial specialists. Die alignment and edge treatment are the primary points of differentiation between genuine pieces and the contemporary counterfeits that circulated alongside them.