World Coins - New Zealand - A S Wilson - 1857 - Dunedin
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Dated 1857 AD. Token coinage, by W J Taylor, London. Obv: inscribed DUNEDIN / OTAGO in two lines with A S WILSON MEDICAL HALL legend. Rev: Justice seated, holding scales and inverted cornucopia with NEW ZEALAND legend and date in exergue. 14.69 grams. KM# Tn71; Lampard 347; Skinner 277; Andrews 639. Andrew Smith Wilson traded as a chemist in Dunedin under the name Medical Hall, from 1852, having come from Scotland; the business was sold in 1863 to Messrs Wilkinson and Dixon; Wilson was also an early photographer, credited with taking the first photographs of Dunedin town.
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Good very fine; sometime cleaned, now toning. Very rare.
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World Coins - New Zealand - A S Wilson - 1857 - Dunedin
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