Australasian penny token of James Wallace, 1859.
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Heaton & Sons, designer obverse and reverse
Australasian penny token of James Wallace, 1859.
1859
copper
Australasian penny token of James Wallace, 1859.
1859
copper
- Place made
- Birmingham, England
- Medium
- copper
- Dimensions
- 3.4 cm (diam.)
- Accession number
- NC00751
- Signature and date
- Obverse Description: Legend in four lines; JAMES WALLACE / GROCER / &c. / . WELLINGTON . 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. In exergue, 1859
- Media category
- Coin
- Collection area
- International decorative arts and design