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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bill in Burl, post: 1569498, member: 23692&quot;]Get a copy of Charlton&#039;s &quot;Canadian Colonial Tokens&quot;, which is the primer for all pre-confederation tokens.&nbsp; Then you can get further into it with Breton and Courteau.&nbsp; These tokens were actually private &quot;forgeries&quot; designed to imitate, but not actually be a counterfeit, of regular British coinage.&nbsp; They contained an honest copper content and competed against the numerous forgeries which threatened confidence in copper currency.&nbsp; There are&nbsp; 4-5 varieties of the token (NS-25 series) with the half-penny and date on the bust side.&nbsp; And there are at least 2 varieties of the NS-26 series with the &quot;Genuine British copper&quot; and date on the portrait side.&nbsp; They are also Breton 886 and 887 series&#039;s.&nbsp; Get the Charlton book and be careful about using the Haxby book for ID&#039;s.&nbsp; It is new and hasn&#039;t been properly vetted or corrected.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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