1 Penny - J.M. Leigh Sydney; New South Wales

Features

Issuer	New South Wales (Australian States)
Type	Emergency coinage › Merchant tokens
Year	1854
Value	1 Penny (1⁄240)
Currency	Pound sterling (1788-1900)
Composition	Copper
Weight	14.5 g
Diameter	33 mm
Thickness	2 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 47669
References	Andrews# 319 Arthur Andrews; 1965. Australasian tokens and coins: a handbook . Trustees of the Mitchell Library, Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. , R# 320 Michael T. Pitt, Paul Bickerton, Mike Loy, Simon Gray; 2012. Renniks Australian & New Zealand Tokens Values. Renniks Publications, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. , Gray# 160 Simon Gray; 2013. A Study of Australasian Trade Tokens: An Illustrated Reference of the Merchants Tokens used in Colonial Australia & New Zealand. Self-published, Perth, Western Australia, Australia. , KM# Tn146 Standard Catalog of World Coins (85 volumes).

Obverse

Seated Britannia left Legend Above.

Script: Latin

Lettering: BRITANNIA

Reverse

Legend curved above and below.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
J.M. LEIGH
TOBBACONIST
524 GEORGE ST
SYDNEY

Edge

Plain

See also

• Boat or watercraft

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