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1/2 Penny - Lewis Abrahams Hobart, Tasmania
| Issuer | Tasmania |
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| Year | 1855 |
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| Weight | 6.5 g |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1855 - A2/R2 Km-Tn6 |
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Lewis Abrahams operated as a merchant and importer in Hobart during the 1850s, a period when chronic small-change shortages across the Australian colonies drove private traders to commission their own copper tokens rather than wait on colonial or imperial authorities to act. The British government had effectively abandoned responsibility for supplying subsidiary coinage to Van Diemen's Land, leaving commerce to fill the gap.
Andrews, Renniks, and Gray all catalog this as their second listing in the Tasmanian merchant token sequence — a convergence suggesting it was well-documented early in Australian numismatic scholarship.