1 Penny - Victoria

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.