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1 Penny - William Andrew Jarvey Hobart, Tasmania
| Issuer | Tasmania |
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| Year | 1862 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely typographic, with no pictorial device. The proprietor's name WILLIAM ANDREW JARVEY is arranged around the outer legend, while the central field carries three lines of bold raised text reading PAWNBROKER / AND GENERAL / CLOTHIER, identifying his trade. The location HOBART TOWN is inscribed along the lower periphery. The whole is contained within a milled border consistent with the obverse, presenting a plain but commercially functional design typical of Tasmanian tradesmen's tokens of the period. |
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William Andrew Jarvey operated a general store in Hobart, and like several Tasmanian merchants of the early 1860s, commissioned private token coinage to relieve a chronic shortage of small change that colonial banking policy had failed to address. The gap between official British copper supply and actual retail demand was substantial enough that merchant tokens circulated alongside — and often more reliably than — government-issued coin.
The Andrews and Renniks reference spread across three varieties reflects known die differences among this issue, a detail worth verifying against the specific piece in hand before cataloging further.