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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Medieval & Modern Coins| > |United Kingdom| > UK92401
Great Britain, George III, 25 October 1760 - 29 January 1820
|United| |Kingdom|, |Great| |Britain,| |George| |III,| |25| |October| |1760| |-| |29| |January| |1820|, In 1797, at the Soho Mint, James Watt and Matthew Boulton used their steam powered presses to strike 50 tons of the new "cartwheel" twopence, at 2 ounces of copper per coin. The twopence was found to be too heavy for regular use and was only struck for that single year.
UK92401. Copper twopence, SCBC 3776, aVF, typical knocks and scratches., Soho mint, weight 56.075g, maximum diameter 40.8mm, die axis 180o, 1797; obverse GEORGIUS III D G REX (George III, by the Grace of God, King), laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; reverse BRITANNIA 1797, Britannia seated left on rocks, olive branch in right hand, trident in left, Union shield at side, tiny SOHO on rock below, sailing ship on water at a distance on left, diving whale right, waves in exergue; a huge bronze!; SOLD










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