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1 Penny - H. J. Marsh and Brother Hobart, Tasmania
| Issuer | H. J. Marsh & Brother |
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| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Reverse description | Central device depicting a group of various ironmongery tools, including parallel knives or blades, with the spade handle oriented to the right (the device appearing inverted relative to the obverse). The tools are enclosed within a circular legend that runs around the full periphery of the coin. The overall composition is characteristic of mid-nineteenth-century Australian colonial tradesman's token reverse types, combining a trade-specific vignette with a redemption promise in the surrounding inscription. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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H. J. Marsh & Brother operated as ironmongers and general merchants in Hobart during the mid-nineteenth century, a period when acute copper coin shortages in the Australian colonies forced private traders to issue their own tokens simply to make change. The colonial authorities tolerated this practice rather than solving it — official supply from Britain was chronically inadequate for the volume of small transactions the colonies required.
Token issues from Tasmanian merchants are generally scarcer than their mainland counterparts, reflecting Van Diemen's Land's smaller commercial base. The Andrews and Renniks references diverge slightly on population estimates for this specific piece.