Australian Traders Tokens 1823-1881

Traders Tokens were issued for the following denominations:

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See the Early Australian Coinage and Traders Tokens articles for more information.
See also New Zealand traders tokens.

The most comprehensive collection of 18th century Australian and New Zealand Tokens was compiled by Dr. Arthur Andrews. He published what is still regarded as the most complete catalog on the subject in 1921 (his reference numbers are used throughout this section). The collection was acquired by Sir William Dixson and greatly expanded. On Dixson's death in 1952, the collection was bequeathed to the Public Library of New South Wales (Mitchell Library).

In 1968, the discovery of a box of cardboard impressions from the archives of Ralph Heaton & Sons led to a reassessment of Andrew's catalog as far as the attribution of token makers were concerned. Over one hundred issues, attributed by Andrews to William Taylor and the Port Phillip Kangaroo Office, were found to have been manufactured in Birmingham by Heaton & Sons.

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