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1/2 Penny - D.T. Mulligan Rockhampton, Queensland
| Issuer | D.T. Mulligan |
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| Year | 1863 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse description | Plain copper field enclosed within a continuous beaded border. The word ROCKHAMPTON appears in raised block capitals across the centre of the field. The circular legend QUEENSLAND STORES arcs across the upper periphery, while D. T. MULLIGAN runs along the lower periphery, both legends separated from the beaded rim by a narrow flat margin. The overall design is purely typographic, with no pictorial device, conveying the commercial token character of this tradesman's piece issued for use at D.T. Mulligan's Queensland Stores in Rockhampton. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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D.T. Mulligan operated a store in Rockhampton during the early 1860s, a period when Queensland's remote interior suffered chronic shortages of small-denomination coinage. The colonial government had no practical means of supplying adequate copper to frontier towns, so merchants took matters into their own hands — commissioning tradesman's tokens, typically struck in Birmingham, to fill the gap. Mulligan's piece is one of dozens of such Queensland merchant tokens catalogued from this decade.
The Andrews, Renniks, and Gray references each assign slightly different catalogue numbers to this type, reflecting decades of independent scholarly effort to systematise a notoriously fragmented series.