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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Windchild, post: 1638657, member: 44189&quot;]They needed tokens due to a lack of official change (not enough was being sent from Britain) and a lack of other countries coins meant that the colonists needed to make tokens to be used.</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe the Eagle was used as it was similar to other tokens (made in the US) that were in circulation in Canada at the time. The specific Colonial Token I think that it was copying the looks of is the Massachusetts Half Cent.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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