½ Penny Sloop Token - Commercial Change, Hunter

½ Penny (Sloop Token - Commercial Change, Hunter) - obverse½ Penny (Sloop Token - Commercial Change, Hunter) - reverse

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Features

Issuer Upper Canada (Canadian provinces)
Type Token
Year 1815
Value ½ Penny (1⁄480)
Currency Pound
Composition Copper
Weight 6.1 g
Diameter 27.2 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
99926
References CCT# UC-8,
Clément Chapados-Girard; 2019. Canadian Colonial Tokens (10th edition). Charlton Press, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
Breton His# 726
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

Engraver: John Sheriff

Reverse

A hunter with a bow, an arrow and a dog.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
COMMERCIAL CHANGE
1815

Engraver: John Sheriff

Edge

Reeded

Comments

Weight: 5.8 - 6.5g
Diameter: 27.1 - 27.4mm

UC-8A1 Bowsprit points between "DA" in CANADA, Medal alignment
UC-8A2 Bowsprit points above final "A" of CANADA, Coin alignment

The reverse is the obverse of NS-12 and UC-8A2 was struck with a rusty die.

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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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC Frequency
1815  100% UC-8A1
1815  20% UC-8A2

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