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1 Penny - Campbell, James Morpeth, New South Wales
| Issuer | New South Wales |
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| Year | 1854 |
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| Reference(s) | Andrews#59, 60, R#70, 71, Gray#39, 39a |
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| Reverse description | A standing female figure of Justice, robed in classical drapery, occupies the central field. She faces left, raising a pair of scales in her outstretched right hand and holding a downward-pointing sword in her lowered left hand, with a cornucopia or foliage visible at her feet. The figure stands on a stepped plinth or ground line, rendered in a neoclassical engraving style common to mid-nineteenth-century Australian colonial tokens. The curved legend AUSTRALIA arcs across the upper field within a continuous beaded border. |
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| Mintage | ND (1854) - A59/R70 - ND (1854) - A60/R71 - |
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James Campbell operated as a merchant and auctioneer in Morpeth, a river port on the Hunter that briefly rivaled Newcastle as the region's commercial center before rail freight ended its dominance. Colonial copper tokens of this period filled a genuine gap — the British imperial government was slow to supply small-denomination coinage to New South Wales, leaving merchants to commission their own. Campbell's tokens are recorded in two die varieties per the Andrews and Renniks references, distinguished by minor differences in the reverse die spacing.