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1 Penny Union Bakery Co. - Christchurch
| Issuer | Union Bakery Company |
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| Value | 1 Penny (1⁄240) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears an entirely typographic design with no pictorial device, presenting the multi-line inscription WHOLESALE AND RETAIL BAKERS CONFECTIONERS AND GROCERS arranged in stacked lines across the field. The lettering is bold and deeply struck in relief, filling the central area of the coin. The whole is enclosed within a beaded border consistent with the obverse. |
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Union Bakery Company operated in Christchurch during the provincial token era of the 1870s, when small-denomination coinage was chronically short in New Zealand's South Island settlements. Trade tokens like this one filled a practical gap — bakers, butchers, and merchants issued their own copper to keep transactions moving. The Rooks catalogue reference R#559 places this piece firmly within the documented Canterbury issues, though surviving examples in anything above Fine are genuinely scarce given the heavy daily use these tokens saw in bread-counter exchanges.