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1 Penny - W. Froomes Castlemaine, Victoria
| Issuer | W. Froomes, Castlemaine, Victoria |
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| Year | 1862 |
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| Thickness | 2.1 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays the Arms of the Colony of Victoria at centre, featuring a quartered shield with a crest of a rising sun above, supported on the left by a kangaroo and on the right by an emu, with a scrolled banner beneath bearing the motto ADVANCE VICTORIA. The outer circular legend reads VICTORIA 1862 and T. STOKES MAKER 100 COLLINS ST. EAST MELBOURNE, identifying the maker and his Melbourne address. The whole design is enclosed within a beaded border consistent with the obverse. |
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Froomes operated a general store in Castlemaine during the post-rush commercial consolidation of the 1860s, when the Victorian goldfields economy was shifting from alluvial chaos to settled mercantile trade. Private copper tokens filled a genuine gap — small change was chronically short in the colonies throughout this period, and storekeepers who issued tokens effectively bought customer loyalty alongside solving a practical problem. The Andrews, Raper, and Gray references all catalog this piece, suggesting it survived in reasonable numbers relative to some Victorian tradesmen's tokens.