Australian Halfpenny token. John Andrew
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Heaton & Sons
William Joseph Taylor, designer obverse and reverse
1802 – 1885
Australian Halfpenny token. John Andrew
1860
copper
William Joseph Taylor, designer obverse and reverse
1802 – 1885
Australian Halfpenny token. John Andrew
1860
copper
- Medium
- copper
- Dimensions
- 2.8 cm (diam.)
- Accession number
- NC00654
- Signature and date
- Obverse Description: At centre, male lion standing to left with head crowned facing front, its right paw is raised and rests on a shield bearing the Union Jack, its tail curved back over its body. around in two concentric circles of text divided by a beaded circle * JOHN ANDREW & CO. * IMPORTERS & GENERAL DRAPERS / 11 LONSDALE STREET WEST * MELBOURNE * In small letters in the exergue below the lion, COARD LONDON 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, its end decorated with a cross to hint at a Union Jack (as found beside Britannia on the copper coins of the period). A three-masted sailing ship sails to the right on the horizon to the left. Justice 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, MELBOURNE VICTORIA.; in exergue, 1860 (Reference Gray 10)
- Media category
- Token