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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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| Reference(s) | CCT#BL-13 |
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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 flooded Lower Canada during the 1820s and 1830s to fill a chronic shortage of authorized small change. They were produced privately — almost certainly in Birmingham — and entered circulation without any official sanction, tolerated simply because nothing else was available. The CCT BL-13 designation places this piece within Breton and Courteau's classification of the so-called "blacksmith" and imitation series, a loose grouping of unofficial coppers that dominated petty commerce in the St. Lawrence valley for decades.