1/2 Penny - George IV

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背面描述	Britannia seated left upon a rock, holding an olive branch in her extended right hand and a trident in her left hand, with the Union shield positioned at her side. The figure is rendered in a classical allegorical style with flowing robes and a helmeted head. The legend HALFPENNY TOKEN arcs across the upper field, with the date 1832 appearing in the exergue below the seated figure.
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铸造量	1832
附加信息	Upper Canada had no official coinage of its own, and the colonial economy relied heavily on a chaotic mixture of British coppers, American cents, and merchant tokens. These halfpennies were struck in Birmingham under contract and shipped across the Atlantic to fill that gap — a private commercial solution to a public monetary problem that the Crown was slow to address. The issue dates to just two years before the influential Currency Act of 1834, which attempted to rationalize the colony's fractured monetary situation. Breton 732 is well documented among Canadian colonial specialists. Die alignment and edge treatment are the primary points of differentiation between genuine pieces and the contemporary counterfeits that circulated alongside them.

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