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Plate VII. 



54. A penny of the City Bank, 1837. 



55. A penny of La Banque du Peuple, 1837. 



56. A penny of the Quebec Bank, 1837, displaying the arms of the city of 



Montreal. 



57. A halfpenny of the Bank of Montreal, 1837. 



58. A halfpenny of the Bank of Montreal, 1838, showing a corner view of the 



Bank building from which it is known as the side view token. The whole 

 coinage of pennies and halfpennies of this date was rejected because of 

 inferior workmanship. 



59. A penny of the Bank of Montreal, similar in design, dated 1839, also 



rejected for the same reason. 



60. A halfpenny, Bank of Montreal, dated 1842, displaying a front view of the 



Bank building. There are pennies of the same date and halfpennies 

 dated 1844. 



61. A halfpenny of the Bank of Upper Canada, 1850. There are pennies as 



well as halfpennies of the same design dated 1850, 1852, 1854, 1857. 



Plate VIII. 



62. Halfpenny token of the Quebec Bank dated 1852, There are pennies of 



the same design. 



63. Beaver currency token, issued by the Northwest Company, dated 1820. 



64. Token of the Hudson Bay Company for one made beaver. 



65. A similar token for a half made beaver. 



66. A quarter made beaver. 



67. An eighth made beaver. The initials on these tokens when filled out may read 



as follows: — H(udson's) B(ay) C(ompany) E(ast) M(ain district) 1 N by 

 mistake for M(ade) B(eaver). The made beaver was the unit by which 

 the Company traded with the Indians. 



68. A twenty-dollar gold piece, British Columbia. 



69. A ten-dollar gold piece, British Columbia. This is the gold coinage proposed 



to be issued in 1862, by Colonel Gossitt, Provincial Treasurer. 



70. A twenty-cent piece of the first decimal coinage for Canada, issued in 1858. 



