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1/2 Penny payable by Carritt and Alport
| Issuer | Carritt & Alport (Halifax, Nova Scotia) |
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| Year | 1814 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of King George III facing right, rendered in the neoclassical style, occupying the central field. A floral wreath adorns the hair, with the drapery falling naturally at the truncation. The peripheral legend reads HALF PENNY TOKEN, with the date 1814 positioned in the lower exergual area. The design is enclosed within a raised beaded border. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Carritt & Alport were Halifax merchants operating during the acute small-change shortage that plagued British North America throughout the Napoleonic Wars period, when official copper from Britain arrived sporadically and colonial authorities lacked the mandate to strike their own. Private merchant tokens like this one filled the gap entirely by necessity — they circulated as functional currency, not advertising. The "payable by" phrasing was a deliberate legal hedge, implying redemption obligation without quite constituting a promissory note under contemporary statute.