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1 Penny Wholesale and Retail Bakers Confectioners and Grocers (mule)
| Issuer | New Zealand |
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| Value | 1 Penny (1⁄240) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a right-facing bust of a Māori warrior depicted in profile, shown with traditional facial features and a draped cloak about the shoulders. The figure displays characteristic indigenous styling, including a headdress or hair arrangement consistent with Māori artistic convention. The circular legend ONE PENNY TOKEN runs along the periphery of the coin, flanking the bust, with the inscription divided across both sides of the effigy. A beaded border encloses the entire design. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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This piece is a mule — a coin struck from dies that were never intended to be paired together. New Zealand trade tokens of the 1850s–1860s were produced almost entirely by a handful of Birmingham manufacturers, primarily Heaton's Mint, who held multiple die sets simultaneously for competing colonial clients. Mismatched pairings occasionally resulted from workshop error or deliberate experimentation, and the surviving mules from this production run occupy an awkward taxonomic space: genuine products of the original dies, but never authorized combinations.
Ruchin's reference number 597 places this among the rarer documented mule varieties in the New Zealand token series.