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1 Penny Hall, Henry J. - Christchurch
| Issuer | Henry J. Hall, Christchurch Coffee Mills |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Obverse lettering | HENRY J. HALL ONE PENNY CHRISTCHURCH COFFEE MILLS |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Henry J. Hall operated his Christchurch Coffee Mills during the acute small-change shortage that gripped New Zealand's Canterbury province in the 1880s, a period when merchants across the colony issued their own tradesman's tokens to substitute for the chronically undersupplied official bronze coinage. Hall's token circulated locally as functional currency, redeemable at his establishment and accepted by neighbouring traders as a matter of commercial necessity rather than legal sanction.