1 Penny - Lewis Abrahams Hobart, Tasmania

Lewis Abrahams operated a clothing and general goods business in Hobart during the mid-1850s, a period when chronic coin shortages across the Australian colonies forced merchants to issue their own copper tokens to make change. The colonial authorities tolerated this practice rather than endorsed it, and most such tokens were struck in Birmingham by a handful of specialist diesinkers exporting to the Pacific trade.

Andrews #1 is the foundational listing for Tasmanian tokens, and Abrahams' penny holds the first position in every major reference — a reflection of its primacy in the series, not its rarity.