1/2 Penny Sir Isaac Brock

Brock died at Queenston Heights in October 1812, and these tokens were struck commercially — almost certainly in Birmingham — as private merchant tokens to fill the chronic small-change shortage that plagued Upper Canada throughout the early nineteenth century. They were not issued by any colonial authority. The Breton classification places them firmly in the merchant token tradition, produced years after Brock's death by entrepreneurs exploiting his considerable local popularity.

Die-link studies have connected several of these pieces to Birmingham token manufacturers active in the 1810s, though attribution to a single producer remains contested.