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1 Penny - T.F. Merry and Co Toowoomba, Queensland
| Issuer | T.F. Merry & Co. |
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| Year | 1863 |
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| Value | 1 Penny (1⁄240) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | PEACE & PLENTY ADVANCE AUSTRALIA |
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T.F. Merry & Co. operated as a general merchant in Toowoomba during the early 1860s, a period when Queensland's colonial coinage supply was chronically inadequate for retail trade. Private tradesmen's tokens filled the gap, and Toowoomba — still a young town, only gazetted in 1858 — was no exception. Most Queensland tokens of this period were struck in Birmingham by the firm of John Wiley, who supplied the bulk of the colonial merchant token trade.
Andrews #366 places this among the rarer Darling Downs issues; surviving examples in problem-free condition are genuinely scarce.