1 Cent - Victoria Pattern

New Brunswick's 1861 cent patterns were struck in London — almost certainly at the Royal Mint or by a private contractor such as Heaton — as the province evaluated adopting a decimal currency ahead of Confederation. The Ch#NB-1 designation covers a small number of trial pieces that preceded the approved circulation issue, and surviving examples are rare enough that most appear to have remained in institutional or collector hands rather than reaching commerce.

New Brunswick joined Confederation in 1867, making this a short-lived provincial coinage program.