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| 背面描述 | The reverse field is likewise entirely textual, with no pictorial motif. The central legend WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS is displayed in three lines of large raised capital letters occupying the majority of the field. A circular peripheral legend running along the upper arc reads PURVEYORS OF THE CONCENTRATED FAMILY COFFEE, completing the commercial description of the firm's trade. The date 1863 appears in the lower exergual area of the field in raised numerals. The design is contained within a beaded border and a plain raised rim consistent with the obverse, reflecting the utilitarian style common to colonial Australian tradesmen's tokens of the period. |
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| 边缘 | Plain |
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Metcalfe & Lloyd operated as general merchants in Sydney during the early 1860s, a period when the chronic shortage of small-denomination colonial coinage pushed private traders to issue their own copper tokens rather than lose sales to the nuisance of making change. Andrews #369 is among the better-documented of the New South Wales merchant token series, appearing in the major Australian token references with consistent attribution — a sign the firm issued in sufficient quantity to leave a traceable record.
The token circulated in a colony that would not see a dedicated Australian decimal coinage for another century, filling a gap that neither the British Royal Mint nor local banking interests had adequately addressed.