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| 正面描述 | Within a central beaded circle, a crowned lion passant guardant to the right, resting its forepaw upon a shield bearing the Union Jack, rendered in fine relief on a flat field. An inner beaded border separates the central device from the surrounding legend. The merchant's trade inscription runs in two arcs around the periphery, reading E. DE CARLE & Co at the top and AUCTIONEERS & LAND AGENTS at the bottom, with ROYAL ARCADE OFFICE filling the intermediate spaces. The outermost border is formed by a continuous ring of beads, typical of mid-nineteenth-century Australian trade token engraving. |
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| 正面文字 | Latin |
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E. De Carle & Co operated as a general hardware and ironmongery merchant in Melbourne during the gold rush years, when the colony of Victoria was flooded with diggers and the official copper coinage from Britain arrived too slowly and in insufficient quantities to meet demand. Private tradesmen's tokens filled that gap — not by formal permission, but by practical necessity. The Colonial Treasury repeatedly failed to resolve the small-change shortage, leaving merchants to issue their own.
Andrews #103 places this among the better-documented Victorian copper tokens of the period.