Post Your Canadian Tokens

I would like to share my small collection of Canadian tokens for your amusement:

Montreal bank halfpenny:


Lower Canada Richard Hurd halfpenny:


Magdalen Island penny:


Prince Edward Island cent:


Finally, because I'm not ashamed, an Upper Canada Isaac Brock halfpenny that has err...seen better days:


I don't have any references for these so if anyone fancies pinning any of these to a specific variety (assuming there are differences) then I'd appreciate the information.

Seasons greetings,
MBE

If your Hurd piece weighs about 8g, mrbadexample, it belongs on the British side of your collection.

The thick- and thin-flan varieties are accounted for by Charlton as follows: "Thomas Halliday designed this series of tokens for use in England. The farthing and penny did not circulate in Canada but were imported by collectors after 1870. Of the halfpenny denomination only the plain edge, light weight specimens were imported by Richard Hurd, a Montreal merchant, for use in Canada."

It appeared in Davis as Not Local 104, and now lists as Withers 1686, plus the varieties noted by blargish.

I've got all three denominations in my collection, all at or about VF. I haven't really tracked this, but my casual observation is that these days they quickly get pretty spendy as you approach EF.

Best to all for the holidays!
Tom

Not UC-6A3, with heads under T and ER?

As for overstrikes, mrbadexample, I wouldn't put that possibility past ANY 1811-1820 token, Canadian or British. It was all basically emergency coinage, right? And so much of it was improvisational, it seems...die pairings from outer space, etc.!

In the Davis/Withers series one can even come across semi-official countermarks, like those of the workhouses, on overstruck tokens.

And, picking up on colonialtokens's cue, since it's already in my CCF Uploaded Images, I might as well post the hammerhead here for all to see!

mrbadexample, the key characteristic of UC-6A5 is the lack of a right serif on the 1's of 1816 on the reverse, as appears on your example (unless I'm mistaken.) Furthermore, the foot of the "A" of CANADA points below the bottom of the monument on UC-6A3, whereas it points to the middle of the monument on yours.

That's one gorgeous NB penny, Gene. That ship, and especially its complicated rigging, has always epitomized the diecutter's art for me.

Does anyone have more background on this NB ship? I've done some digging in the past but it seems to be an "ideal" (like the modern Bluenose, perhaps) representing in a generalized way the important New Brunswick shipbuilding industry of the era...haven't been able to learn whether this ship can itself be "attributed" beyond that.

Happy New Year everybody...may 2021 be significantly less suboptimal for us all!

Tom

You never fail to amaze me, Gene, with your coins/tokens and references. Very nice!