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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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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | Entirely typographic design with no pictorial elements. The issuer's name JOSEPH BRICKHILL arcs along the upper rim, while CAMPBELL TOWN curves along the lower rim, both separated by raised dots and contained within a beaded border. The central field displays the merchant's trade description DRAPER AND GENERAL IMPORTER in four bold raised lines, identifying the commercial establishment that issued this token. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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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.