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1/2 Penny Regal Imitation - George III left
| Issuer | Canadian provinces |
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| Year | 1835 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of King George III facing left, rendered in a crude imitative style characteristic of privately struck regal imitations produced for circulation in the Canadian provinces. The portrait shows the king with flowing hair tied at the nape, truncated at the shoulder. The surrounding field is largely bare, and the legends, typical of regal halfpenny prototypes, are either absent or illegible due to the debased die work. The overall execution is rough, consistent with an unofficial striking intended to supplement the chronic small-change shortage of the period. |
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| Mintage | 1835: ND (1835) |
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These so-called "regal imitations" occupied a legal grey zone: they mimicked official British copper coinage closely enough to circulate at face value while being produced entirely outside Royal Mint authority. By the 1830s, Lower Canada was chronically short of small change, and privately struck tokens filled the gap so effectively that colonial merchants rarely questioned their legitimacy. The CCT designation places this piece within Breton's landmark 1894 catalogue of Canadian colonial issues, which remains the foundational reference for this series.