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1/2 Penny Regal Imitation - George III right, uniface
| Issuer | Canadian provinces |
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| Year | 1835 |
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| Reference(s) | CCT#BL-18 |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (1835) - Unique |
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Regal imitations occupied a legal grey zone in early nineteenth-century Canada. With chronic small-change shortages and no domestic mint, merchants and token issuers produced copper pieces closely imitating official British regal coinage — close enough to circulate without question, distinct enough to avoid a direct forgery charge. The CCT BL-18 is uniface, suggesting either a planchet failure, a trial strike, or a piece deliberately made one-sided, possibly as a check piece or from a defective press run.
By 1835, British authorities were already moving to suppress the token trade in the colonies, a campaign that would intensify through the 1840s.