256, Lot: 893. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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HANOVER. George III. 1760-1820. Æ Halfpenny (30mm, 11.95 g, 6h). Soho (Birmingham) mint. Third issue, dated 1799. Laureate, draped, and armored bust right; • on truncation / Britannia seated left on rock outcropping, shield at side, holding olive branch in extended right hand, cradling trident in left arm; SOHO below shield; to left, ship with five gun ports in incuse sailing right on horizon. Peck 1248; SCBC 3778. Fine.