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| 裏面の説明 | A mounted Cossack warrior is depicted in profile riding to the right, holding an upright lance. The figure captures the dynamic energy of a cavalry charge, rendered with fine engraved detail typical of early nineteenth-century token manufacture. A two-line legend appears above and below the central equestrian motif identifying the piece as a penny token. A beaded border encircles the entire reverse design. |
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| 裏面の銘文 | COSSACK PENNY TOKEN |
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The "Cossack" penny belongs to a loose category of anonymous trade tokens that flooded Lower Canada during the chronic small-change shortages of the Napoleonic Wars period, when official British coinage rarely reached the colonies in useful quantities. The Wellington series drew commercial legitimacy from the Duke's Iberian campaigns — his victories at Salamanca and Vitoria made him the most bankable name in the English-speaking world, and colonial merchants were not slow to exploit that.
Davis 92 is among the scarcer die marriages within the Wellington token family. Struck privately in Birmingham by one of several competing die-sinkers supplying the colonial token trade, it circulated alongside dozens of near-identical pieces, which explains the attribution complexity that produced three separate reference numbers for a single type.