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1 Penny - Brickhill, Joseph Campbell Town, Tasmania
| Issuer | Joseph Brickhill, Campbell Town |
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| Year | 1856 |
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| Weight | 16.1 g |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Joseph Brickhill operated as a general merchant in Campbell Town during the 1850s, a period when the chronic shortage of small change in the Australian colonies forced tradesmen to commission their own copper tokens from British die-sinkers — primarily in Birmingham. The Colonial economy simply couldn't wait for official coinage to catch up with settlement.
Andrews #45 places this piece within a well-documented but genuinely scarce series. Campbell Town tokens as a group saw limited issue volumes compared to Hobart and Launceston merchants, reflecting the town's modest population in the mid-1850s.