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1973.11.30

ID Number: 1973.11.30
Category: Communication Artifacts
Sub-category: exchange medium
Item Name: token
Date: 1854
Materials: metal, copper
Description: obverse: [St. George and dragon]/ bank of upper Canada/ 1854
reverse: [crown, crossed sword, anchor, axe, two cornucopia, union jack] bank token/ one half-penny
History: Provincial halfpenny This item and others from Windsor Public Library (WPL) (73.11) were found when the library relocated from Carnegie hall to its new Main library on Ouellette in 1973. Probably had been accumulated by the Essex Historical Society.
Place made: Canada
Collection Name: Museum Windsor
Subject (Fre): Y

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Bank of Upper Canada organization

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