1 Sou Banque du Peuple - Crown with oak leaves

1 Sou (Banque du Peuple - Crown with oak leaves) - obverse1 Sou (Banque du Peuple - Crown with oak leaves) - reverse

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Features

Issuer Lower Canada (Canadian provinces)
Issuing bank People's Bank (Banque du Peuple)
Type Token
Year 1838
Value 1 Sou (1⁄480)
Currency Pound
Composition Copper
Weight 9 g
Diameter 27.2 mm
Thickness 1.9 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
22494
References CCT# LC-5A,
Clément Chapados-Girard; 2019. Canadian Colonial Tokens (10th edition). Charlton Press, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
KM# Tn4,
Tracy L. Schmidt (editor); 2019. Standard Catalog of World Coins / 2001-Date (14th edition). Krause Publications, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States.
And 5 more volumes.
Breton His# 715
Pierre Napoléon Breton; 1894. Histoire illustrée des monnaies et jetons du Canada. P.N. Breton & Co., Montreal, Canada.

Obverse

Thistle plant bouquet in centre.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
AGRICULTURE & COMMERCE
BAS CANADA

Reverse

Value in center of a oak leaves crown.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
BANQUE DU PEUPLE
UN SOU
MONTREAL

Edge

Plain or Reeded

Mint

The Belleville Mint, Belleville, New Jersey, United States (1831-1846)

Comments

(Around 84,000 coins were mint in Belleville in New Jersey.)

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC Frequency
ND (1838)  64% #1 : Plain edge
ND (1838)  $ 16 37% #2 : Reeded edge

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