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Bouquet sou minted at Belleville in 1838. While the Montreal banks issued bouquet sou of the correct weight for their denomination, speculators began importing tokens of similar design but of slightly lower weight, thereby profiting from the difference in face value from the cost of having the coin made.
The Habitant token were a series of tokens that were created for use primarily within Lower Canada and were issued in 1837. Produced as a successor to the popular bouquet sous , these tokens depicted a Habitant on the obverse, a traditional depiction of a French-Canadian farmer in winter clothing, and the coat of arms for the City of Montreal ...
The name evolved, along with the rest of the language, from Latin to French. Solidus became soldus, then solt in the 11th century, then sol a century later. In the 18th century, the spelling of sol was adapted to sou so as to be closer to the pronunciation that had previously become the norm for several centuries.
Bouquet sou; Bust and harp tokens; C. Canadian fifty-cent coin; Canadian silver dollar; Canadian twenty-cent coin; Coinage of Upper Canada; D. Dime (Canadian coin) F.
Both Upper Canada (Canada West, modern southern Ontario) and Lower Canada (Canada East, modern southern Quebec) issued copper tokens. Between 1835 and 1852, the Bank of Montreal, La Banque du Peuple, the City Bank and the Quebec Bank issued 1- and 2-sou (1 ⁄ 2 d and 1d) tokens for use in Lower Canada.
Since its opening in 1908, the Royal Canadian Mint has produced coinage and planchets for over 80 countries. [1] This list of foreign countries with coinage struck at the Royal Canadian Mint lists countries that have been serviced by the Crown corporation, as listed on the website of the Canadian Numismatic Publishing Institute.
Is Sou-Sou For You? Ad hoc sou-sous have been operating in the U.S. for decades. Last month, the concept went mainstream when Cameroon native Bill Gwanyalla set up www.sou-sous.com as a way of ...
The early Canadian banking system (British North America and New France until 1763; then renamed Upper and Lower Canada) was regulated entirely by the colonial government.. Primitive forms of banking emerged early in the colonial period to solve the drain of wealth caused by the application of mercantilist th