382, Lot: 636. Estimate $150. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HANOVER. George III. 1760-1820. Æ Halfpenny (30mm, 13.02 g, 6h). Third issue. Soho (Birmingham) mint. 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; 1799 in exergue. Peck 1248; SCBC 3778. EF, even warm brown patina with slight hints of red.

From the Dr. Lawrence D. Sporty Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Inventory 803659 (November 2007).