1 Penny - Stead Bros - Vines Bendigo; Victoria
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Features
| Issuer |
Victoria
(Australian States)  |
|---|---|
| Type | Emergency coinage › Merchant tokens |
| Year | 1862 |
| Value | 1 Penny (1⁄240) |
| Currency | Pound sterling (1788-1900) |
| Composition | Copper |
| Weight | 15 g |
| Diameter | 34 mm |
| Thickness | 2.4 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 321879 |
| References | Andrews# 504 Arthur Andrews; 1965. Australasian tokens and coins: a handbook . Trustees of the Mitchell Library, Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Michael T. Pitt, Paul Bickerton, Mike Loy, Simon Gray; 2012. Renniks Australian & New Zealand Tokens Values (1st edition). Renniks Publications, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.Simon Gray; 2013. A Study of Australasian Trade Tokens: An Illustrated Reference of the Merchants Tokens used in Colonial Australia & New Zealand. Self-published, Perth, Western Australia, Australia. |
Obverse
Text only
Script: Latin
Lettering: STEAD BROTHERS FRUITERERS GROCERS & SEEDSMEN PALL MALL SANDHURST
Reverse
Legend around vines and grapes
Script: Latin
Lettering:
VICTORIA 1862
IN VINO VERITAS
Translation: In wine is truth
Edge
Plain
Mint
Thomas Stokes, Melbourne, Australia (1856-1873)Comments
One Penny Token, minted by Thomas Stokes, Melbourne. Issued by Stead Bros, Grocers & Seedsmen, Bendigo, Victoria, 1862. The three Stead brothers came to Victoria in the early 1850s from Leeds in England. They established themselves as 'fruiteries, grocers and produce merchants' in Bendigo.
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Undetermined | |||||||||||||||
| 1862 | A504/R486 Stokes VINE A1/R2 reverse | ||||||||||||||
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