Australasian penny token of Morrin & Co., c. mid-nineteenth century
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Heaton & Sons, designer obverse and reverse
Australasian penny token of Morrin & Co., c. mid-nineteenth century
mid 19th century
copper
Australasian penny token of Morrin & Co., c. mid-nineteenth century
mid 19th century
copper
- Place made
- Birmingham, England
- Medium
- copper
- Dimensions
- 3.4 cm (diam.)
- Accession number
- NC00733
- Signature and date
- Obverse Description : At centre a palm tree, around in four curved lines, MORRIN & Co. / QUEEN STREET / AUCKLAND / GROCERS, WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS 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. 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 near the horizon line behind; around above, ADVANCE AUCKLAND. A Maori, holding a spear, and a gold prospector, holding a pick, shake hands at left of token below the scales.
- Media category
- Coin
- Collection area
- International decorative arts and design