je vous présente un nouveau jeton de ma collection.
Il s'agit du jeton :
Lesslie & Sons - York Kingston & Dundas
Prosperity to Canada - Prudence et la Candeur
Token Halfpenny
Dans le livre de Joseph Leroux :
on peut voir qu'il est classifié comme #699 et de rarité 4.
J'ai trouvé un peu d'histoire sur le marchand dans le livre : Toronto of Old..
http://books.google.com/books?id=xJq1Nr ... en&f=false
Il semble aussi que ce jeton est été frappé après une loi qui interdisait l'importation de jeton privée dans la province du bas canada après 1825.
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in 1825 a law was passed in the Province of Lower Canada forbidding the importation of private tokens. To evade this law tokens were made bearing a date previous to 1825. These tokens are known as antedated.
In Ontario the tokens issued by Lesslie and Sons likely fall into this category. This firm was established in 1820 and later issued a halfpenny and a two-penny token. On the halfpenny token it is listed that Lesslie and Sons were druggists and booksellers of York, Kingston and Dundas. The 2d issue features the date of 1822 and bears the legend Lesslie and Sons Toronto and Dundass. What is interesting about this token is that York did not change its name to Toronto until 1834 and yet the token bears the date of 1822. A possible explanation for this is that York had always been known as Toronto even though it did not officially change its name as such until 1834.
Also the firm doesn’t appear to have been established in Dundas until about 1828 a full six years after the date of 1822 shown on the token and three years after the 1825 law.
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Voilà.. Je l'ajoute dans mon cartable.
Fred
