Australasian penny token of Martin & Sach, c. mid-nineteenth century
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Heaton & Sons, designer obverse and reverse
Australasian penny token of Martin & Sach, c. mid-nineteenth century
mid 19th century
copper
Australasian penny token of Martin & Sach, c. mid-nineteenth century
mid 19th century
copper
- Place made
- Birmingham, England
- Medium
- copper
- Dimensions
- 3.4 cm (diam.)
- Accession number
- NC00645
- Signature and date
- Obverse Description: MARTIN & SACH / IRONMONGERS / . ADELAIDE . Reverse Description: Female figure representing Justice standing facing 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 among the fruit the letter G. She wears an ancient-style of flowing dress bound at the waist, her left arm is draped to near the elbow while drapery falls from her extended arm to below the horizon line behind; around above, AUSTRALIA. A three-masted sailing ship on horizon at left of token.
- Media category
- Coin
- Collection area
- International decorative arts and design