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| 正面描述 | The denomination HALF PENNY is inscribed in two lines across the centre of the field, flanked above and below by a pair of horizontal rules. A circular legend surrounding the central device reads HENRY J. HALL CHRISTCHURCH COFFEE MILLS, the lettering set within a plain beaded border. The design is typographically conceived with no pictorial elements, characteristic of colonial New Zealand tradesman's tokens of the mid-to-late nineteenth century. |
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| 边缘 | Plain |
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Henry J. Hall operated a drapery and general merchandise business in Christchurch during the 1870s, when the chronic shortage of official small denomination coinage in the Canterbury province forced local merchants to commission their own tradesman's tokens. The colonial government was slow to address the gap, and private copper filled it. Hall's pieces circulated alongside tokens from dozens of other Canterbury tradesmen, redeemable at the issuing counter but functionally accepted much more broadly.
Andrews 161 is among the better-documented Canterbury issues, appearing consistently in the major New Zealand token references with concordant numbering across Gray and Renniks.