Australasian Penny token of E. De Carle & Co 1862
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Australasian Penny token of E. De Carle & Co 1862
1862
copper
- Medium
- copper
- Dimensions
- 3.0 cm (diam.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Port Adelaide Institute Committee, 1929
- Accession number
- NC00681
- Signature and date
- Obverse Description: Around the British Royal Arms in a Gothic script, E DE CARLE & CO MERCHANTS . DUNEDIN OTAGO with the motto HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE Reverse Description: A 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 away to the left 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. Around above, VIVANT REGINA in exergue, 1862
- Media category
- Coin