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1 Penny - Hanks and Lloyd Sydney, New South Wales

Issuer Hanks and Lloyd (Australian Tea Mart, Sydney)
Year 1857
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Weight 15.41 g
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Obverse script Latin
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Reverse description The central field bears the Coat of Arms of New South Wales, depicting a quartered shield with a lion passant in the first quarter, a sailing ship in the second, a sheaf of wheat (or ox) in the third, and an anchor in the fourth, surmounted by a radiant rising sun above the shield. The shield is supported on the dexter by an emu and on the sinister by a kangaroo, both standing on a scrolled cartouche bearing the motto ADVANCE AUSTRALIA. The legend PEACE & PLENTY arcs around the upper periphery, and the date 1857 appears in the lower field, all enclosed within a beaded border.
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Hanks and Lloyd operated the Australian Tea Mart on George Street, Sydney, and issued these tokens during a period when colonial New South Wales suffered a chronic shortage of small change — official British copper coinage was scarce, and the colonial government had no authority to mint its own. Private traders filled the gap, and merchant tokens circulated with broad community acceptance throughout the 1850s. The three die varieties catalogued under this issue reflect the practical reality of token production: dies wore out, orders were recut, and no two batches were quite identical.

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