I recently aquired this, and cannot find any information about it. If anyone has info, I would greatly appreciate it.
Zaneman,this piece is not from New Brunswick.Although it has 'BRUNSWICK' inscribed on the piece,I have a strong feeling that this is from England.The traders' tokens are popular with British Commonwealth collectors such as myself,as these pieces circulated as coins due to a massive coin shortage throughout the British Isles in the late 18th & early 19th Centuries. Aidan.
The earliest New Brunswick coins listed in Krause are dated 1843, and all of them follow the British Commonwealth practice of picturing the Monarch on the obverse (Victoria young head on the 1/2d and 1d from the 1840s/'50s, and middle-age head on the decimal 1/2¢ to 20¢ from the '60s.) And, of course "New" Brunswick indicates that there was an "old" Brunswick, so I'm inclined to agree with Aidan's theory.
This may not have anything to do with colonial New Brunswick but a certain Duke of Brunswick. This token is similar to other contemporary examples in this list or the one in the sample pic. http://www.coinsandstamps.com/foreigncoins/Condor Tokens/01 New Tokens/new_tokens.htm http://www.napoleonicmedals.org/coins/brit95-3.htm
