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1 Penny - Grattan, R. (Auckland)
| Issuer | R. Grattan |
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| Year | 1872 |
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| Currency | Trade tokens (1857-1881) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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R. Grattan operated a grocery and provision business in Auckland during the early 1870s, issuing this token at a moment when colonial New Zealand suffered a persistent shortage of official small change. The Auckland Provincial Government had no authority to mint coin, and the imperial supply from Britain was chronically inadequate for retail trade — a gap that dozens of local merchants filled with their own copper issues. Grattan's token circulates among a well-documented cluster of Auckland tradesmen's pieces from the same period, most struck in Birmingham by firms supplying the antipodean colonial market.