½ Penny (Commerce Token - Francis Mullins) ND (1828) front ½ Penny (Commerce Token - Francis Mullins) ND (1828) back
½ Penny (Commerce Token - Francis Mullins) ND (1828) photo
© ECapoe

½ Penny Commerce Token - Francis Mullins ND

1828 year
Brass 5.1 g 26.7 mm
Description
Issuer
Lower Canada (Canadian provinces)
Type
Token
Year
1828
Value
½ Penny (1⁄480)
Currency
Pound
Composition
Brass
Weight
5.1 g
Diameter
26.7 mm
Shape
Round
Technique
Milled
Orientation
Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized
Yes
Updated
2024-10-04
References
Numista
N#99306
Rarity index
92%

Reverse

Merchant description with name on top and city bottom.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
FRANCIS MULLINS & SON
IMPORTERS
OF SHIP CHANDLERY
&C.
MONTREAL

Edge

Plain

Comment

Weight: 4.8 - 5.4g
Diameter: 26.6 - 26.8mm

LC-17A1 Copper
LC-17A2 Brass

Alfred Sandham wrote about this token in The American Journal of Numismatics in 1872: