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1/2 Penny - D.T. Mulligan Rockhampton, Queensland
| Issuer | D.T. Mulligan, Queensland Stores, Rockhampton |
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| Year | 1863 |
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| Diameter | 28 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | QUEENSLAND STORES ROCKHAMPTON D.T. MULLIGAN |
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Daniel Thomas Mulligan operated his Queensland Stores in Rockhampton during a period when the colonial copper coinage supply was chronically inadequate for retail trade, prompting merchants across Queensland and New South Wales to commission private token issues from manufacturers — primarily Stokes & Martin and James Morison & Co. in Melbourne. Mulligan's token is among the documented Rockhampton merchant pieces catalogued by Andrews and Ryde, reflecting how commercially active the Fitzroy River settlement had become following the pastoral expansion of the late 1850s.
Rockhampton was only gazetted as a town in 1858, making this 1863 issue extremely early in the settlement's commercial history.