Rarer 1813 Canada Lower Bank Half Penny Token, Field Marshal Wellington Variety, Trident Reverse - XF Condition - 1/2 Penny Token Canada 1813

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Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (né Wesley; 1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was a British Army officer and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures in Britain during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, twice serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He was one of the British commanders who ended the Anglo-Mysore wars by defeating Tipu Sultan in 1799 and among those who ended the Napoleonic Wars in a Coalition victory when the Seventh Coalition defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

Issuer:    Lower Canada (Canadian provinces) 
Type:    Emergency coinage
Year:    1813
Value:    ½ Penny (1⁄480)
Currency:    Pound
Composition:    Copper
Weight:    8.5 g
Diameter:    28.1 mm
Shape:    Round
Technique:    Milled