The other day I won an internet auction for two Canadian penny tokens ( 1857 Upper Canada and 1837 Quebec Bank ) and they arrived in the mail today. To my surprise when I opened the package the vendor had sent me an extra token. It is dated 1812 and has on one side British Copper company in a wreath and smelting works at Landore around the wreath. The other side has a Lion in the middle with one penny under it and rolling mills at Wathamstow around the outside. It is very cool and it was free!! I was just wondering if anyone could tell me any more about it, as I haven't really looked into tokens before. Cheers, John
John,that's a very nice coin you've got there.The British Isles also had a coin shortage like Aussie,Canada,& New Zealand did.That trader's currency token came from the British token era (1787-1820). The St. George coins from Upper Canada are a very interesting series.The 1857 1/2d. & 1d. very seldom turn up,but they are extremely underrated.Can you please post some photos? You can use www.imageshack.us . I bought a pair of the 1857's in one of the Wellington Coin Club auctions around 5 years ago. As to the Quebec Bank piece,is it a Front View or is it a Habitant? Aidan.
John,that is a nice St. George coin.It is a pity about the holey Habitant coin though.It is best to keep this until you get a better one. Aidan.
Yeah i have only seen one other of the Habitant and it had a bigger hole through it and the guy wanted $15.00 for it. But i got the two coins for $10 and got a bonus!!
I actually bought an 1852 Habitant 1/2d. (1 Sou) a few weeks ago.It cost me US$15,including postage all the way from Quebec.It took a week to get here,considering that it was coming from a smaller place in Quebec that I had never heard of. Aidan.
Well I got my penny from Palmerston north. But i did get a 1936 Canadian dollar and 5 Newfoundland 10 cent coins from British Coloumbia and they took only a week to arrive as well!! Canada must have a resonable postal service!
John,the 1936 Canadian silver $1 is a very scarce type coin that is the only one that has Sir Bertram MacKennal's King George V portrait,even though it was issued posthumously during the reign of King Edward VIII,as was the 1936 1c. from Newfoundland & the 1936 1/4d. from Ireland. Aidan.
