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| 表面の説明 | Left-facing draped bust of a Maori figure with facial tattooing (moko), the hair dressed with three feathers rising from the crown. The legend ONE PENNY TOKEN arcs around the upper periphery of the field. The portrait is rendered in moderate relief in a style typical of mid-19th century colonial trade token engraving. |
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| 裏面の説明 | The central field bears the merchant's name EDWARD WATERS in bold raised letters across the middle, with CONFECTIONER arcing above and QUEEN ST below. The circular peripheral legend reads WHOLESALE & RETAIL around the upper arc and AUCKLAND along the lower arc, all in incuse lettering within a plain border. The layout is entirely typographic with no pictorial device, characteristic of colonial New Zealand tradesman's tokens of the 1860s–1870s. |
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Edward Waters operated a hardware and general store in Auckland during the 1850s and early 1860s, issuing tradesman's tokens at a time when official British coinage was chronically undersupplied in the New Zealand colonies. The Royal Mint showed little urgency in addressing the shortage, leaving merchants to fill the gap with privately struck copper. Waters' tokens were produced in Birmingham, almost certainly by one of the established die-sinkers supplying the colonial trade — the same supply chain that equipped dozens of Australian and New Zealand issuers during the same decade.
Angus & Sons' 1936 census recorded two distinct varieties, now catalogued as R#581 and R#582, differentiated by die details.