DCHP-1 Online
Montreal ship copper Obs. 
a half-penny token in circulation in the Canadas in the early 19th century, issued in Quebec about 1816.
- 1820 Such immense quantites of . . . spurious Coppers have been imported . . . that it has become absolutely necessary to [prohibit] the circulation of the Waterloo Harp, the Half penny tokens, having Britania on the one side and a ship on the other, and Montreal ship coppers.
- 1820 Such immense quantites of . . . spurious Coppers have been imported . . . that it has become absolutely necessary to [prohibit] the circulation of the Waterloo Harp, the Half penny tokens, having Britania on the one side and a ship on the other, and Montreal ship coppers.