Description

New Zealand Merchant Token.

Gaisford & Edmonds, Christchurch Butchers.

One Penny Token 1875.

Obverse: GAINSFORD & EDMONDS. PORY & GENERAL BUTCHERS. COLOMBO STREET CHRISTCHURCH. New Zealand.

Reverse:

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 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, both arms bare. 

Reverse legend: NEW ZEALAND 1875.

Mint: Heaton & Sons.

Bronze, 34mm.

Catalogues: R148, A142, N# 77505.

Grade: Fine-gFine details, dents to both sides the reverse appears to have surface flaws.

SOLD.