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half-cent Hist. 
n. a copper coin having a brief period of circulation in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
- 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. . . .
- 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.