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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a copper coin having a brief period of circulation in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
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1891
A coinage of cents, of the same design, was also ordered in 1861 for New Brunswick and, although this order required no half cents, a quantity were struck and sent out with those ordered for Nova Scotia.
1964
Before Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, then British colonies, entered Confederation, they had struck money of their own . . . Nova Scotia ordered half-cent pieces from the mint in London, but New Brunswick did not. Owing to an error some 220,000 were minted and sent along with those for Nova Scotia. . . .