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1 Sou Belleville - 18 cherry leaves / 2 shamrocks

Issuer Lower Canada
Year 1835-1838
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Shape Round
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Obverse script Latin
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Mintage ND (1835-1838) - LC-29A -
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The Belleville tokens take their name not from any town in Lower Canada but from the Birmingham firm of Thomas Halliday, who operated from Belleville Works and supplied enormous quantities of anonymous copper to a colony perpetually starved of small change. British North America had no official copper coinage of its own in this period — the Crown simply never prioritized it — leaving merchants and municipalities to fill the gap with privately struck pieces that circulated on reputation alone.

The proliferation of die varieties catalogued under the Breton numbers reflects the commercial reality: multiple shipments, multiple die combinations, no single controlling authority.

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