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1/2 Penny Thomas Halliday
| Issuer | Lower Canada |
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| Year | 1812 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Reverse description | A seated female allegorical figure, representing Commerce or Justice, is depicted facing left in the central field, holding a pair of scales in her extended right hand and a cornucopia filled with fruit and grain in her left arm, resting upon a rocky exergual base with a small ship visible in the lower left field. The peripheral legend HALFPENNY TOKEN arcs across the upper portion of the coin, with the date 1812 prominently displayed in the lower exergue. The design is enclosed within a beaded inner border, consistent with Birmingham-struck colonial trade token production of the period. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Birmingham, England |
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