1 Penny - J. Sawyer Brisbane, Queensland

J. Sawyer operated a hardware and general merchants business in Brisbane during the early colonial period, issuing this token at a time when Queensland's copper coinage supply was chronically inadequate for retail trade. The colonial government had no local mint, and small-change shortages were a persistent commercial headache throughout the 1860s. Merchants issuing their own copper was not merely tolerated — it was practically necessary.

The Andrews, Renniks, and Gray listings all catalogue this piece, suggesting it has a reasonably documented provenance within Australian token studies, though Sawyer tokens are not among the more frequently encountered Brisbane merchant issues.