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1/2 Penny Regal Imitation - George III left
| Issuer | Canadian provinces |
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| Year | 1835 |
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| Weight | 6.1 g |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1835: ND (1835) |
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These brass imitations of British regal halfpennies circulated widely in British North America during a period when the Crown had largely abandoned supplying adequate official coinage to the colonies. Merchants and token issuers filled the vacuum, and pieces like this one — struck to broadly halfpenny dimensions but in brass rather than copper — passed by weight and convention rather than by any official sanction. The CCT BL-9 designation places this among the Blacksmith tokens, a loose family of crude Canadian issues whose actual place of manufacture remains genuinely uncertain; some scholars have argued for a North American origin, others for importation from Britain as blanks or finished pieces.