2 Pence Lesslie and Sons

Features

Issuer	Upper Canada (Canadian provinces)
Type	Emergency coinage › Merchant tokens
Year	1822
Value	2 Pence (1⁄120)
Currency	Pound
Composition	Copper
Weight	28.0 g
Diameter	40.3 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 99733
References	CCT# UC-3 Charlton Press (publisher). Canadian Colonial Tokens. Charlton Press (13 volumes). , Breton His# 717 Pierre-Napoléon Breton; 1894. Histoire illustrée des monnaies et jetons du Canada = Illustrated history of coins and tokens relating to Canada. P.N. Breton & Co., Montréal, Quebec, Canada.

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Obverse

Justice standing with scales in left hand and sword in right hand, date below.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
LESSLIE & SONS
TORONTO & DUNDAS

Engraver: Thomas Wells Ingram

Reverse

Plough left

Script: Latin

Lettering:
.PROSPERITY TO CANADA.
TOKEN
2d CURRENCY
LA PRUDENCE ET LA CANDEUR

Engraver: Thomas Wells Ingram

Edge

Plain

Comments

Weight: 27.8 - 28.3g
Diameter: 40.2 - 40.5mm

Ever since it was founded, York was unofficially called Toronto, popularly thought to be the old Indian name for "meeting place". This piece bears the name Toronto, even though it was issued before the city was incorporated in 1834.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1822

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