Description New Zealand Merchants One Penny Token circa 1865. W. Perkins & Co. Drapers, Princess street north, Dunedin, Otargo, 1863-1866. Obverse Reads: PERKINS & CO. DRAPERS. DUNEDIN. Reverse: A 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 away 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. Reverse Legend: DUNEDIN NEW ZEALAND. Catalogue: R425, A435, KM$ Tn58. Mint: Heaton & Sons. Bronze, 9.44g, 30.5mm, plain edge. Grade: VF, cleaned.
