1 Penny - T.F. Merry and Co Toowoomba, Queensland

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.