319, Lot: 684. Estimate $150. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HANOVER. George III. 1760-1820. Copper Twopence (40mm, 55.51 g, 6h). Second issue, ‘Cartwheel’ type. Soho (Birmingham) mint. Dated 1797. Laureate, draped, and armored bust right / Britannia seated left on Union shield, holding trident and olive branch; in background, ship sailing right. Peck 1077; SCBC 3776. VF, scattered marks.

From the childhood collection of the late Dr. Mark Blackburn, Keeper of Coins, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Proceeds of this sale will go to the Mark Blackburn Memorial Fund).