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1 Penny - Auckland Licensed Victuallers Association Auckland
| Issuer | Auckland Licensed Victuallers Association |
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| Year | 1874 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | Entirely typographic reverse with no central device, featuring the text ESTABLISHED IN NEW ZEALAND APRIL 4 1871 arranged in the central field in multiple lines of raised capital lettering of varying sizes, with NEW ZEALAND prominently displayed in large bold letters. The peripheral legend AUCKLAND LICENSED VICTUALLERS ASSOCIATION runs around the outer border within a beaded circle, with a raised dot stop at the base. The design is enclosed by a beaded inner circle and an outer beaded border, with all lettering in raised Latin capitals. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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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.