½ Penny - Copper Company of Upper Canada
Features
| Issuer |
United States (pre-federal and private/territorial)
 |
|---|---|
| Type | Emergency coinage › Merchant tokens |
| Year | 1796 |
| Value | ½ Penny (1⁄480) |
| Currency | Pound |
| Composition | Miedź |
| Shape | Okrągły |
| Technique | Frezowana |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 44371 |
| References | KM# Tn86 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes). 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. |
Obverse
(en) Hope (with anchor) presents two children to Liberty, who holds a pole bearing a liberty cap. Very similar to the Myddelton token but without seated Britannia on reverse. The Myddelton token was struck for a proposed Kentucky settlement.
Cornucopia behind Liberty, representing the fertility of Kentucky. Plant sprig between the figures, representing Myddelton's Kentucky venture
Script: łaciński
Lettering:
BRITISH SETTLEMENT KENTUCKY
1796.
Reverse
(en) Company name in center, value around outside.
Script: łaciński
Lettering:
ONE HALF PENNY
COPPER
COMPANY
OF UPPER
CANADA
Mint
Soho Mint, Handsworth, England (1788-1850)See also
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Undetermined | |||||||||||||||
| 1796 | (en) Mule; estimated 10 to 20 exist | ||||||||||||||
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