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1 Penny - Hedberg/ Levy Late Restrike Mule
| Issuer | Lipman Levy & O.H. Hedberg |
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| Year | 1857 |
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| Reference(s) | Andrews#205, R#202?, Gray#101j |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | LIPMAN LEVY WELLINGTON NEW ZEALAND IMPORTER AND MANUFACTURER OF BOOTS & SHOES |
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Levy and Hedberg operated as merchants in mid-nineteenth century Australia, and their tradesman's tokens occupy a genuinely odd corner of colonial numismatics — pieces produced not by a government mint but by private commercial interests filling a chronic small-change shortage in the colonies. The "late restrike mule" designation here is the critical detail: this is a die marriage that was never the original intended pairing, struck after the fact, almost certainly by the diesinker rather than the issuing merchant.
Andrews #205 is sparsely documented, and the R#202 attribution carries a query for good reason.