CNG 108, Lot: 1202. Estimate $500. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HANOVER. George III. 1760-1820. Gilt CU Pattern Farthing (26mm, 7.08 g, 6h). Second issue; ‘Cartwheel’ coinage. Early Soho (Birmingham) mint. Dated 1798. Laureate, draped, and armored bust right; K on truncation of arm; 1798 in incuse in exergue / Britannia seated left on rocky outcropping with SOHO, holding olive branch and trident; Union shield to right; in background to left, ship under sail right on sea; in exergue, 1. FARTHING . flanked by trefoils; all in incuse . Peck 1202. EF, a few light hairlines and small spots. Rare.

From the Anthony Halse Collection of British Pattern Coins.