Collection: New Brunswick 1861-1864

New Brunswick first issued coins in 1861 with a denomination set based on the Province of Canada issues of 1858-1859. The silver coins have the reverse designs as the Province of Canada coins other than the 20 cent with a design from a pattern originally rejected by the Province of Canada. The bronze 1/2 and 1 cents have the same designs as the Nova Scotia coins with just the name changed. The 1861 1/2 cent was minted in error due to confusion at the Royal mint as they were never ordered but were used when 200,000 of them arrived in New Brunswick, and are today fairly scarce.

On the 1864 short 6 New Brunswick 1 cent there is a variety described in the CCN trend sheet as E/E and in Charlton (2020 edition) as a E/F, but neither illustrated or explain the variety. This variety is an E for F in the obverse inscription which normal ends of F. D. but the rare type ends with E. D. I have not yet determined if it is simply an E punched instead of an F, or an E punched over an F. I have seen one example where on the reverse the E of NEW has a small gap between the lower leg of the E and the upright, and appears to have been first punch as an F and then the lower leg was added to turn the F into an E.

New Brunswick had a short run when it comes to coins. The province only had the 1/2 cent in 1861, the one cent in 1861 and 1864 and the 5, 10 and 20 cent in 1862 and 1864.