1 Penny P.E.I Uniface - McCausland

The McCausland token was struck in 1813 to address a chronic small-change shortage that plagued Prince Edward Island throughout the early nineteenth century — a problem common to most British North American colonies, where official copper coinage from London arrived sporadically and in quantities never adequate for local commerce. The uniface nature of this piece is unusual even within the already irregular world of colonial merchant tokens, with the blank reverse suggesting either a production shortcut or a damaged die that was pressed into service regardless.

CCT PE-2 attribution places this among the earliest documented copper tokens specific to the island.