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1/2 Penny Imitation - Ships, Colonies and Commerce - Harp Design
| Uitgever | Canadian provinces |
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| Jaar | 1835 |
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| Diameter | 26.4 mm |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | A left-facing harp occupies the central field, struck from a badly cracked die whose die cracks are visible across the design. The harp motif is derived from the reverse design of BL-4, rendered in a plain, utilitarian style characteristic of contemporary Canadian imitation tokens. The field is otherwise unadorned, with no surrounding legend or inscription. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | A four-line inscription fills the central field in capital Latin letters, reading SHIPS / COLONIES & / COMMERCE, arranged in a format similar to that of BL-24B. The lettering is bold and deeply struck, occupying the majority of the flan with minimal decorative border. The image reveals a heavily worn die, with the inscription partially incomplete at the edges, consistent with the use of a deteriorated or misaligned die. No additional emblems or devices are present in the field. |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
The "Ships, Colonies and Commerce" tokens flooded into Lower Canada during the 1830s largely because the colonial government had utterly failed to supply adequate small change. Merchants and importers — some legitimate, many opportunistic — filled the vacuum with privately struck copper, much of it produced in Birmingham by firms like W.J. Taylor. The Harp Design variant catalogued under Breton 998 is among the more numerous die combinations in the series, yet attribution remains complicated by the sheer volume of obverse and reverse die pairings struck across multiple issuing parties with no single controlling authority.
CCT BL-28 places this piece within the broader Blacksmith token adjacency — struck to imitate, compete with, or simply circulate alongside more official-looking colonial copper.