1 Penny - Victoria

Nova Scotia's 1856 penny was struck at the Heaton Mint in Birmingham, part of a broader colonial coinage initiative that predated Canadian Confederation by over a decade. The province managed its own currency arrangements independently of the other British North American colonies, and these coppers circulated alongside a chaotic mix of British regal issues, American cents, and locally-issued tokens.

The Heaton contract is notable: Birmingham's private mints were handling colonial work precisely because the Royal Mint in London had little appetite for small copper orders from peripheral territories.