Please notice writing over the token with a black pen as you see in the image

Token - 1 Penny, William Bateman Jnr & Co, General Merchants, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia, 1855

34 mm (Outside Diameter)

Australia Victoria Warrnambool

William Bateman Jnr. & Co. Token Penny 1855 (AD)

Mint: Heaton & Sons, Birmingham

A round copper token (34 mm diameter). The token features the name, address, business of the issuer and date: William Bateman Jnr. & Co. Warnambool (sic) Victoria, Importers and General Merchants 1855. The reverse features a female figure representing Justice standing facing 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 among the fruit the letter G. She wears an ancient-style of flowing dress bound at the waist, her left arm is draped to near the elbow while drapery falls from her extended arm to below the horizon line behind; around above, AUSTRALIA. A three-masted sailing ship on horizon at left of token.

Obverse Description :

Across center, VICTORIA , around within a line circle, WILLIAM BATEMAN JUNR. & CO. WARNAMBOOL; around outside circle, IMPORTERS AND GENERAL MERCHANTS . 1855 .

Reverse Description :

Female figure representing Justice standing facing 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 among the fruit the letter G. She wears an ancient-style of flowing dress bound at the waist, her left arm is draped to near the elbow while drapery falls from her extended arm to below the horizon line behind; around above, AUSTRALIA. A three-masted sailing ship on horizon at left of token.

Edge Description

Plain