149, Lot: 439. Estimate $200. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HANOVER. George III. 1760-1820. Æ Penny (36mm, 28.42 g, 6h). Soho mint, Birmingham. Dated 1797. Small draped bust right, large letters / Britannia seated left on rock, holding branch with 10 leaves; ship at left with 6 incuse gun ports, and an ensign on the stern; SOHO to right below shield. The diagnostic obverse die flaw - a minute raised dot below the drapery near the edge - is present. Peck 1123 (see note p. 304); SCBC 3777. EF, mishandled proof, a few field marks. a late SOHO striking.