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3 Pence - Hogarth, Erichsen and Co Sydney, New South Wales
| Issuer | Hogarth, Erichsen and Co |
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| Year | 1860 |
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| Currency | Pound sterling (1788-1900) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a kangaroo standing to the left and an emu standing to the right, both flanking a central fan palm tree rendered in fine detail, the composition evoking the distinctive fauna and flora of Australia. The scene is set on a ground line with a suggestion of water or terrain in the background. The circular legend REMEMBRANCE OF is disposed around the upper periphery, with AUSTRALIA inscribed along the lower periphery. The design is engraved in a naturalistic style characteristic of Australian colonial token issues of the 1860s. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Hogarth, Erichsen and Co. operated as importers and general merchants in Sydney during the gold rush era, when chronic small-change shortages forced colonial traders to issue their own token coinage. This piece is unusual among Australian colonial tokens in being struck in silver rather than the copper that dominated private issues of the period — a deliberate choice that gave it genuine intrinsic credibility with recipients skeptical of merchant scrip.
The firm's silver threepence circulated alongside official British coinage at a time when the New South Wales colonial government had no minting facility of its own.