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1/2 Penny Regal Imitation - George III left

Uitgever Canadian provinces
Jaar 1835
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Beschrijving voorzijde Crude imitation effigy of King George III facing left, rendered in a rudimentary and debased style characteristic of contemporary counterfeits and emergency issues. The laureate bust is clumsily executed, with minimal detail in the hair and drapery. No surrounding legend is present, leaving the field entirely bare. The overall workmanship reflects the unofficial, privately struck nature of this regal imitation token.
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Beschrijving keerzijde A coarsely engraved figure of Britannia seated to the right, holding a spear in her left hand and a spray of leaves in her right, loosely imitating the standard Britannia reverse of contemporary British halfpennies. The execution is markedly crude, with ill-defined contours and a simplified rendering of the shield and supporting elements. The exergue and surrounding field are devoid of any legend or date. The primitive workmanship is consistent with the unofficial, imitation character of this emergency circulation piece.
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Aanvullende informatie

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.

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