Australasian penny token of A. Toogood 1855.
Australasian penny token of A. Toogood 1855.
1855
copper
- Medium
- copper
- Dimensions
- 3.4 cm (diam.)
- Accession number
- NC00747
- Signature and date
- Obverse Description: A. TOOGOOD / MERCHANT / PITT & KING ST. / SYDNEY Reverse Description: Female figure representing Justice seated on a wool bale with legs to left but her head and upper body to front. A wine barrel lies on the ground behind her and a three-masted sailing ship sails to the right on the horizon to the left. She wears a blindfold and extends a balanced set of scales with her right hand. With her left she holds an inverted cornucopia from which fruits flow onto the ground. She wears an ancient-style of flowing dress bound at the waist, her left arm bare and right draped to near the elbow. Above AUSTRALIA; in exergue, 1855.
- Media category
- Coin