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Old 13-11-20, 01:58 PM
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George 111 1797 cartwheel twopence.
41 mm x two ounces, at the time copper was a penny an ounce.
Ob: Bust of George right. GEORGIUS 111 D.G.REX. Name scratched in fields T.J.WALKER.
Rev: Britannia seated on the rock above the waves, Soho mint mark just below the shield. BRITANNIA 1797.
Struck for one year only by Mathew Boulton's steam presses at Soho Mint Birmingham.

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