Lot 9-288. Australia, Trade Token. CU Penny. Heaton & Sons, Birmingham, England, 1859. Scarce.

Australia, Trade Token. CU Penny (34.2 mm, 14.09 g, 1 h). Heaton & Sons, Birmingham, England, 1859. Scarce. PEACE & PLENTY ADVANCE AUSTRALIA 1859, Coat of arms flanked by kangaroo and emu, rising sun above / 1859, 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. VF, bag marks.

 

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