Description

Samuel Coombes Merchant token, circa 1870.

Manufacturing Clothier, Tailor, Outfitter.

Queens Street, Auckland.

He also ran a store in Grahamtown, Coromandel, on Albert Street, as a Gentlemans Mercer.

Obverse: Portrait of Mr Samuel Coombes, the only New Zealand token from this period to feature the business owners face.

Denomination is One Penny (token).

Struck by Thomas Stokes.

Copper, 34mm.

Catalogue:# R87, A77.

Grade: VF.