Token - 1 Penny, William Morgan, Wholesale & Retail Grocers, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 1858

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Summary:: Australia South Australia Adelaide
William Morgan Token Penny 1858 (AD)
Mint: W.J.Taylor, London

Standard References: Andrews 386 = Heyde 186/2
Description:: A round copper token (34 mm diameter). The token features the name address and business of the issuer: William Morgan, Hindley Street Adelaide, Wholesale and retail Grocers. The reverse features 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, her left arm bare and right draped to near the elbow.

This token has been cleaned and has partly re-toned and is partly holed to left of Justice.
Acquisition Information:: Transfer from Melbourne Branch of Royal Mint, 1978

Discipline:	Numismatics
Dimensions:	34 mm (Diameter)
Weight:	16.494 g (Weight)

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Themes this item is part of:	William Morgan, Wholesale & Retail Grocers, Adelaide, South Australia (circa 1830-?), Numismatics & Philately Collection, Working Life & Trades Collection, Royal Mint, Melbourne Branch, Melbourne, Victoria, W.J.Taylor, Mint, London, United Kingdom, Branch Mints of the Royal Mint, Deputy Masters of the Melbourne Branch of the Royal Mint, Closure of Melbourne Mint, Melbourne Mint during World War II, Establishment of Melbourne Mint, 1872, Melbourne Mint
Primary Classification:	TRADE TOKENS
Secondary Classification:	Australia - South Australia
Tertiary Classification:	working strikes
Series:	Trade Tokens
DateEra:	1858 AD
Denomination:	1 Penny
Obverse Description:	WILLIAM MORGAN / WHOLESALE / & / RETAIL / GROCER / HINDLEY STREET / ADELAIDE
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 AUSTRALIA; in exergue, 1858.
Edge Description:	Plain
Inscriptions:	Obverse: WILLIAM MORGAN WHOLESALE & RETAIL GROCER HINDLEY STREET ADELAIDE Reverse: AUSTRALIA 1858
Shape:	Round
Material:	Copper
Issued By:	William Morgan - Wholesale and Retail Grocers, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 1858
Mint:	W.J.Taylor, Mint, London, England, Great Britain, 1858
Previous Collection:	Royal Mint, Melbourne Branch
References:	Andrews 386 = Heyde 186/2 W.J. Taylor employed two stock 'seated Justice' reverse dies to strike the Morgan order. The two resultant die combinations seen on the tokens are employed both for museum storage and standard references. Identification of the reverse dies is simplest by measuring the height of the letters used for the word AUSTRALIA and the space between the closest point of the first A to the horizon line. The die characteristics on these are: Die Letter height A to horizon 1 2.3 mm 11.5 mm 2 2.0 mm 10.9 mm This token was struck from die 2
Bibliography:	[Book], Dr Arthur Andrews, Australasian Tokens and Coins, Trustees of the Mitchell Library, Sydney, Sydney, 1921 [Book], Dion Skinner - Renniks & Co Pty Ltd, Gilbert Heyde, Unofficial Coins of Colonial Australia and New Zealand, 1967