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SKU: 13992 Category:

Perkins & Co, Penny circa 1865, Dunedin.

$173

Seated Justice reverse.

SKU: 13992 Category:

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New Zealand Merchants One Penny Token circa 1865.

W. Perkins & Co.

Drapers, Princess street north, Dunedin, Otargo, 1863-1866.

Obverse Reads: PERKINS & CO. DRAPERS. DUNEDIN.

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 away 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.

Reverse Legend: DUNEDIN NEW ZEALAND.

Catalogue: R425, A435, KM$ Tn58.

Mint: Heaton & Sons.

Bronze, 9.44g, 30.5mm, plain edge.

Grade: VF, cleaned.

 

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