Lot of Five Canadian Bouquet Un Sou Tokens - Bouquet Un Sou Canadian Tokens Lot of 5

This listing is for the Lot of Five Canadian Bouquet Un Sou Tokens. There are many varieties of this token and we recommend visiting www.coinsandcanada.com (not affiliated) to see all of the different varieties. This listing features a set of five unique different variety Bouquet Un Sou Canadian tokens. Each has the obverse and reverse clearly photographed, and one unique token within this lot has a fingerprint indentation marked into the planchet, shown in the 6th picture, revealing almost a complete print. The tokens varying in many ways within this lot such as even in planchet sizing. 

Commerce in 19th-century Lower Canada was difficult to carry out because of a lack of coinage in circulation. Most of the coins that were available were foreign coins from countries such as the United States and Mexico. Lower Canada tokens, including the Bouquet Sou, were issued by the Bank of Montreal as a solution to the currency shortage. Though the Bank of Montreal was the original issuing organization, it didn’t have the ability to mint the coins and outsourced the production to a facility in New York state. Approximately 500,000 Bouquet Sous were issued in July 1835.

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Lot of Five Canadian Bouquet Un Sou Tokens - Bouquet Un Sou Canadian Tokens Lot of 5