1/2 Penny Regal Imitation - George III left

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.