1/2 Penny Sir Isaac Brock

Brock died at Queenston Heights in October 1812, and within a few years his name was being pressed into commercial token coinage — a distinctly Canadian habit of venerating military figures through private merchant issues. This piece was struck in Birmingham, almost certainly by Boulton & Watt's successors, and circulated as a substitute for the chronic shortage of small change in Upper Canada that persisted well into the 1820s.

The Breton 724 reference places it firmly within the documented series of Canadian merchant tokens, though "issuer" here is loosely applied — no government sanctioned it.