New Zealand Halfpenny token H. Ashton
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- Place made
- Birmingham, England
- Medium
- copper
- Dimensions
- 2.8 cm (diam.)
- Accession number
- NC00659
- Signature and date
- Obverse Description: Legend in eight lines: H.ASHTON / IMPORTER / OF / HABERDASHERY / & / TAILORS / TRIMMINGS / QUEEN ST. AUCKLAND 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; above, NEW ZEALAND; in exergue, 1858. (Reference Gray 16)
- Media category
- Token
- Collection area
- International decorative arts and design