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Message:: [QUOTE="GeorgeM, post: 1852490, member: 28550"]I pulled out QP's Canadian Tokens & Medals. The "Banque du Peuple" legend points pretty directly to the Bowman 715 type for this, which has a note that there are 3 varieties. "This coin was authorized by the Order in Special Council of 1838. Many authorities are convinced that there are two varieties of this coin, with the wreath on the reverse touching at the top and with it separated. The variety with the leaf touching is the so-called Hart variety. The writer has not seen a coin in sufficiently perfect condition to convince him that there actually are two varieties. Ferguson (Numismatist, Feb 1947) states that the open type wreath always appears with the T and U in AGRICULTURE being joined at the top by a heavy die break. He also notes a third variety on which a bar appears between the D and A in CANADA on the obverse and whenever this bar appears, it is on the closed wreath type. Struck in Belleville. The reverse is similar to Nos. 698 and 699. The reverse is used only for this coin." -from "The Bouquet Sou Tokens of Canada by Fred Bowman, ANA 8473, Lachine, Quebec, Canada" I'm thinking this is type 2 - an open wreath without the bar between the D&A. But, I don't see the die break that Ferguson claimed was always found in the open wreath variety.[/QUOTE]