1837 Lower Canada Half Penny One Sou Copper Bank Token

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1837 Lower Canada Half Penny One Sou Copper Bank Token
1837 Lower Canada Half Penny One Sou Copper Bank Token. Obverse legend: PROVINCE DU BAS CANADA Reverse: Bank of Montreal on Ribbon. Breton 521.
During the 1830s and the Patriots Rebellion in Canada there was a shortage of small change, which encouraged private companies to mint several copper coins. The first token of Quebec was that of an ironmonger named John Shaw. This was a token strike on one side various tools sold in his business and the other his name and the place Upper Town Quebec.
In 1838, he created pennies representing a character on the reverse wearing a sash. Even if it's the year 1837 on the token, it was really struck early in 1838 by several different banks, including Quebec Bank which produced 120,000 1/2 penny and 240,000 pennies.
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