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1 Penny - J.R. Grundy - BALLAARAT Ballarat, Victoria
| Issuer | Victoria |
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| Year | 1861 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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J.R. Grundy operated as a stationer and bookseller in Ballarat during the gold rush's long tail, when the Victorian colonial government's chronic shortage of small change left merchants with little choice but to commission their own tradesman's tokens. The double catalog reference — Andrews 155 and 156, Gray 88 and 88a — indicates two distinct varieties exist for this issue, most likely differentiated by a minor die variation in the spelling or punctuation of "BALLAARAT," which itself reflects the older two-A spelling still in common use in Ballarat during the early 1860s.