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1 Penny - Auckland Licensed Victuallers Association Auckland
| Issuer | Auckland Licensed Victuallers Association |
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| Year | 1874 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of Queen Victoria facing left, her hair elaborately dressed with a wreath of laurel leaves tied at the back with a ribbon. The effigy is set within a beaded inner circle, with the peripheral legend reading VICTORIA at the top and BORN MAY 24 1819 continuing around the lower arc, all in raised Latin capitals. The portrait is rendered in a classical Victorian trade token style with fine detail in the hair and laurel wreath. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Auckland Licensed Victuallers Association issued this token during a period when New Zealand's small-denomination coinage supply was chronically inadequate for retail trade. Publicans and hoteliers, who handled enormous volumes of small transactions daily, had particular incentive to produce their own tradesman's tokens — and the LVA's collective issue gave member establishments a professionally struck, association-backed piece rather than the individual proprietor tokens more common elsewhere in the colony.
The three catalogued varieties under Andrews #326–328 differ in minor die details, suggesting more than one production run across the token's active circulation period.