Summary

Australia Victoria Warrnambool
William Bateman Jnr. & Co. Token Penny 1855 (AD)
Mint: Heaton & Sons, Birmingham
Previous Collections: George McArthur
Standard References: Andrews 30 = Heyde 21= Sharples V.204

Physical Description

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

More Information

  • Collection Names

    McArthur Bequest

  • Collecting Areas

    Numismatics & Philately, Working Life & Trades

  • Acquisition Information

    Transfer from National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), George McArthur, 15 Mar 1976

  • Date Issued

    1855 AD

  • Issued By

    William Bateman Junior - William Bateman Junior & Co, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia, 1855

  • Mint

    Heaton & Sons (Mint), Birmingham, England, Great Britain, 1855

  • Previous Collection

    George McArthur

  • Inscriptions

    Obverse: WILLIAM BATEMAN JUNR. & CO. WARNAMBOOL VICTORIA IMPORTERS AND GENERAL MERCHANTS 1855 Reverse: AUSTRALIA

  • Denomination

    1 Penny

  • Series

    Trade Tokens

  • Material

    Copper

  • Axis

    12

  • Classification

    Trade tokens, Australia - victoria, Working strikes

  • Category

    History & Technology

  • Discipline

    Numismatics

  • Type of item

    Object

  • Dimensions

    34 mm (Outside Diameter), 15.54 g (Weight)

  • References

    Andrews 30 = Heyde 21= Sharples V.204 -Gardner, F.. 'Trade tokens and the firms who issued them.' Australian Storekeepers And Traders Journal. 31 Oct 1910: p.1. Reprinted in: Australian Coin Review. July 1969: p.21; -Turnbull, J.. "Two tokens of Australia Felix." Australian Coin Review. September 1992:pp. 34 - 36; -The Argus. 7 September 1855: p.7; -The Warrnambool Examiner and Western Districts Advertiser. 26 September 1856: p.1; The Warrnambool Examiner and Western Districts Advertiser. 7 November 1856: p.2; -The Herald. December 12 1856: p.7; -The Warrnambool Examiner and Western Districts Advertiser. 16 December 1856: p.2; -PROV Inward Bound Immigrants Index (British Ports), VPRS 7666. Microfiche B037/005 and B038/012; -Sharples, J.. "Catalogue of Victorian Trade Tokens." Journal of the Numismatic Association of Australia. Vol. 7. December 1993: p.76; -Hope, John. Bateman. Unpublished MSS. 2005: 3 pps.
    [Article] Sharples, John P. 1993. A Catalogue of the Trade Tokens of Victoria 1848 to 1862. Journal of the Numismatic Association of Australia. vol.7: p.1-77.
    [Book] Heyde, Gilbert C. & Skinner, Dion H. 1967. Unofficial Coins of Colonial Australia and New Zealand.
    [Book] Andrews, Arthur. 1921. Australasian Tokens and Coins.

  • Keywords

    Import Trade, Retail Trade, Retailing