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1 Penny - Victoria
| Issuer | New Brunswick |
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| Year | 1854 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | A full-rigged sailing vessel, identified as a ship of the line or frigate type emblematic of the Royal Navy and New Brunswick's maritime heritage, is depicted sailing to the left across stylised waves occupying the central field. The ship is rendered in fine detail with multiple masts, fully set sails, standing and running rigging, bowsprit, and a flag at the stern. The circumferential legend · NEW BRUNSWICK · arcs across the upper field, while ONE PENNY CURRENCY curves along the lower periphery, all enclosed within a denticular inner border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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New Brunswick's copper coinage of 1854 was struck at Heaton's Mint in Birmingham under provincial authority, before Confederation absorbed the colony's monetary arrangements into Canada's federal framework in 1867. The penny's considerable weight was a deliberate policy choice — the province wanted a coin heavy enough to discourage counterfeiting and to compete with the flood of lightweight American and British pieces circulating alongside it.
The Breton 911 attribution places this among the documented New Brunswick series, though die varieties exist within the NB-2B classification that reward close examination of the date numerals.