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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jcm, post: 2034624, member: 72567&quot;]I know the colonial coppers typically had a weight somewhere on par with a contemporary British half penny, and would have been familiar to most people at least up to 1800. As to the conversion, I would imagine they were accepted as current British half pennies would be. </p><p>It would have been similar to the situation in Quebec where British and Quebecois coinage were circulating simultaneously until the harmonization of the Canadian monetary system.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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