1 Penny - Victoria

New Brunswick's 1843 penny was struck in London by Boulton and Watt's successors at the Soho Mint, one of several colonial issues produced for British North American provinces that year. The province had no minting infrastructure of its own, and currency shortages were chronic enough that locally issued copper was genuinely necessary for daily commerce rather than ceremonial.

The Breton 909 attribution places it firmly within the documented Canadian colonial series, though die-quality variation between specimens is well established among collectors of this type.