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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jimski, post: 2872553, member: 77373&quot;]Great Britain, Colony of Lower Canada - Thomas Halliday halfpenny token, 8.64g</p><p>[ATTACH=full]686822[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]686823[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Charlton in his <u>Standard Catalog of Canadian Colonial Tokens</u> says: <i>These are an extensive series on anonymous tokens struck by Thomas Halliday in 1812 and 1813.&nbsp; They were good weight and were designed by Halliday who also cut the dies. They saw extensive use in England until 1817, when copper tokens were ordered to be withdrawn from circulation, and then shipped to Canada to circulate here.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>The Halliday Token can be disguised from the 1832 restrike tokens of Joseph Tiffin by the Halliday mintmarks (H).&nbsp; The obverse H mintmark is found in the left truncation.&nbsp; The reverse mintmark is found on the ground at the right.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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