Best Book For Oz/Nz 19th-Century Tokens?

I just ran across mention of this one today so I have not read it, but you could check it out: http://www.principality-hutt-river....atalogue.htm

Maybe someone here has it and can give particulars on whether it has information on varieties as well.

I'm afraid that the short answer to your question is "No, it doesn't exist anymore".

The Krause catalogue is the closest thing you'll find to a regularly updated price guide for Australasian tokens; all of the Australian books have been "once-off" or irregular affairs. Renniks used to have a token section of the catalogue, but in the most recent editions it's been dropped in favour of coverage of the plethora of "modern junk" the two Australian mints are churning out. They may be planning a separate volume that just has the tokens in it; we'll have to wait and see if it eventuates.

All the modern Australian catalogues that mention tokens only have Australian tokens; since the 1980's, very few people on either side of "the Ditch" have considered Australian and New Zealand tokens to be part of the same series, despite their obvious similarities and common history. Collecting New Zealand coinage in general isn't as popular here as it used to be.

I think the 21st edition of Renniks (2004) was the last edition to feature the Australian tokens. The coin club fellow I mentioned in your other thread is quite dismissive of this listing; it has numerous errors and omissions in attribution and rarity/value, and uses its own numbering system (a variation of Heyde numbers) rather than the more widely used Andrews numbers.

Supposedly Greg McDonald is writing a book about them. But it seems to be one of these 'released at the end of the year' things that some people do. They just never specify the end of which year it will be released.