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1 Penny - Murray & Christie - Advance Victoria Mule Castlemaine, Victoria

Issuer Murray & Christie
Year 1862
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Engraver(s) T. Stokes
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Obverse script Latin
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Reverse lettering VICTORIA 1862 ADVANCE VICTORIA T.STOKES MAKER 100 COLLINS ST.EAST MELBOURNE
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Murray & Christie operated a general store in Castlemaine during the peak of the Victorian goldfields era, issuing tradesman's tokens as a practical solution to the chronic small-change shortage that plagued colonial Victoria throughout the 1850s and 1860s. This piece is a mule — struck from dies that were not originally paired — combining the Murray & Christie obverse with the "Advance Victoria" reverse die used across multiple issuers, a common enough practice among the small number of Birmingham die-cutters supplying the Australian token trade.

The Andrews, Renniks, and Gray references all catalog it separately, reflecting genuine collector interest in die-pairing anomalies within this series.

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