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1/2 Penny Wellington Waterloo - ship design
| Issuer | Lower Canada |
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| Year | 1815 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1815 |
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Issued in the year of Waterloo, this token entered circulation through the acute small-change shortage that plagued Lower Canada throughout the early nineteenth century — the colonial administration repeatedly failed to supply adequate regal coinage, leaving merchants and private issuers to fill the gap. Wellington tokens of this period flooded in from British merchants exploiting that vacuum, often struck cheaply in Birmingham and shipped across the Atlantic as commercial ventures rather than official monetary instruments.
Breton 1003 is among the more frequently encountered of the Wellington series, though die alignment and planchet quality vary considerably across the type.