(sold for $54.0)

1813, Lower Canada. Scarce Copper "Spread Eagle" ½ Penny Token Coin. Overtype!

Mint Year: 1813 Reference: Breton 994, Charlton  LC54D2, Courteau 27.  R! Condition: Traces of undertype recognizable, minor deposit, otherwise a nice VF+ Denomination: ½ Penny Token - Spread Eagly Type (struck over a different token type!) Material: Copper Diameter: 27mm Weight: 8.73gm

Obverse: Togate female allegoric figure left, seated beneath an oval british shield, holding olive-spray in right hand and caduceus in left hand. All within wreath. Reverse: Eagle with spread eagles, holding four arrows in right claw and olive-spray in left claw. Date (18-13) split below. Legend: HALFPENNY TOKEN

The Province of Lower Canada (French: province du Bas-Canada) was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River and the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence (1791–1841). It covered the southern portion of the modern-day Province of Quebec, Canada, and the Labrador region of the modern-day Province of Newfoundland and Labrador (until the Labrador region was transferred to Newfoundland in 1809).

Lower Canada consisted of part of former French colony of New France, populated mainly by French Canadians, which was ceded to Great Britain after that empire's victory in the Seven Years' War, also called the French and Indian Wars in the United States. Other parts of New France ceded to Britain became the Colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.

The Province of Lower Canada was created by the Constitutional Act of 1791 from the partition of the British colony of the Province of Quebec (1763–91) into the Province of Lower Canada and the Province of Upper Canada. The prefix "lower" in its name refers to its geographic position farther downriver from the headwaters of the St. Lawrence River than its contemporary Upper Canada, present-day southern Ontario.

The colony was abolished in 1841, when it and the adjacent Upper Canada were united into the Province of Canada.