Copper One Penny Token, minted by Heaton & Sons, Birmingham.
Issued
by Martin & Sach, Ironmongers, Adelaide, South Australia, circa
1858. The earliest reference to Martin & Sach was found in the 1854
Royal South Australian Almanac, when they were listed as Ironmongers of
Hindley Street. The earliest advertisement located for Martin and Sach
was not for their role as Ironmongers, but an 1862 entry for their role
as the 'Wholesale agents for South Australia' for Lea and Perrins'
Worcestershire Sauce (The South Australian Advertiser, 6 January 1862,
p. 1). In 1867 they took out a half page advertisement in the National
Directory of South Australia for 1867 - 1868, listing a huge range of
commercial and domestic ironmongery, as well as the sauce mentioned
above. In 1870 Martin and Sach do not appear in the Adelaide Almanac,
Town and Country Directory and Guide to South Australia, but in the
following year's edition 'F & S Sach, Ironmongers' took out a full
page advertisement for their business at 58 Rundle Street. It seems
likely that Sach established his own business after the end of his
partnership with Martin.
VF/XF , Copper, kmTn-160
Copper, 34 mm.
Obverse Description
MARTIN & SACH / IRONMONGERS / . ADELAIDE .
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: Plain
catalog VF-$220, XF-480
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