Æ, diameter 30.5mm.  SMOKE THORBECKE'S MONOPOLY CIGARETTES  MACHINE MADE  above and below bear smoking cigarette, TRADE MARK at sides.  R. "REALLY GOOD AND CHEAPER THAN OTHERS" TOB. TRADE REV. OCT. 80 · around; in centre STEAM MACHINERY ENABLES US TO OFFER  FINEST TURKISH & AMERICAN  NEATER AND CHEAPER THAN HAND MADE  PRIZE AT MELBOURNE EXHIBITION.  Neilson, Tobacco Trade, page 22.  Fine - Good Fine (USA VF)
Ex David Rogers collection*.

* David Rogers was fanatically anti-smoking. As a physician and anaesthetist he wrote several papers on the connection between fertility and smoking.

Thorbecke, a German firm founded in 1790, distributed their cigarettes via their London agent, J.Flachfield & Co., 36 Basinghall Street.
The quote in the reverse legend comes from the Tobacco Trade Review, October 1880.

Partially machine- and hand-made cigarettes were first developed in England in the mid-1800s, and totally mechanised production was possible by the 1880s. Although initially dismissed as effeminate by some and as the choice of dandies or larrikins by others, the comparative cheapness and convenience of mass-produced cigarettes changed the way Australians smoked forever. The cigarette became ubiquitous in the trenches of the First World War, during which more than 60% of tobacco donated to the Allies on the Western Front as part of their rations arrived in the form of cigarettes.