½ Penny Sloop Token - Commercial Change - Tools

Features

Issuer	Upper Canada (Canadian provinces)
Type	Token
Year	1833
Value	½ Penny (1⁄480)
Currency	Pound
Composition	Copper
Weight	5.4 g
Diameter	27.7 mm
Shape	Round
Orientation	Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 85108
References	CCT# UC-13, Clément Chapados-Girard; 2019. Canadian Colonial Tokens (10th edition). Charlton Press, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Breton His# 731 Pierre Napoléon Breton; 1894. Histoire illustrée des monnaies et jetons du Canada. P.N. Breton & Co., Montreal, Canada.

Obverse

Sloop sailing right with lettering top and bottom.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
HALFPENNY TOKEN
UPPER CANADA

Reverse

Crossed shovels top; hammer, anvil, tongs bottom; saw left; vice right, with legend around and date below.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
COMMERCIAL CHANGE
1833

Edge

Plain

Comments

Weight: 4.9 - 5.8g
Diameter: 27.6 - 27.9mm

Issued by Watkins & Harris, hardware merchants from Toronto.
The Sloop Tokens appear after 1825, some being openly antedated to evade the law of 1825 against private tokens. The law was openly ignored in Upper Canada, who were secure in their relative isolation from the commercial and political centre of Lower Canada.
At the time, the sloop was the chief means of transportation on the Great Lakes and far more reliable than any form of land transport. Rev. Henry Scadding said this sloop was a portrayal of the packet "Duke of Richmond", owned by a man named Oates.

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