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GB 1797 1d

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CU #3245 B.N.A. #428


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  • 7Jaguars7Jaguars Posts: 7,584 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very nice there!!

    Love that Milled British (1830-1960)
    Well, just Love coins, period.
  • 1960NYGiants1960NYGiants Posts: 3,511 ✭✭✭✭

    Nice one, Don.

    Gene

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  • bigmarty58bigmarty58 Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A beautiful piece of art!

    Enthusiastic collector of British pre-decimal and Canadian decimal circulation coins.
  • BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,256 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have always liked they big pennys. When I was living in the UK I never found one nice enough to buy. Seems like many of the great UK coins are in the Us market.

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  • YorkshiremanYorkshireman Posts: 4,583 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like it

    Yorkshireman,Obsessed collector of round, metallic pieces of history.Hunting for Latin American colonial portraits plus cool US & British coins.
  • sylsyl Posts: 960 ✭✭✭
    edited January 10, 2020 10:50AM

    I have a couple nice ones as well. 1797 was the last year that the mint struck coins based upon the actual value of the metal that it was struck from. In '97, the copper was worth MORE than the 1 &2 penny of that size so, from then on, the size of the coins was reduced so the gov't didn't lose money.

    Carrying a few of those in your pocket would wear a hole in there muy pronto.

  • JBKJBK Posts: 15,905 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Is that yours? Nice one

    I want one of those someday. A nice one like that.

    I also want an unc 2 pence. For now I have a nice somewhat high grade circulated one with minimal dings.

  • Senator32Senator32 Posts: 407 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Lovely coin.

  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The George III copper coinage of 1797 was (of course) struck under contract by Matthew Boulton at his Soho Mint near Birmingham - not at the Royal Mint in London. The idea to strike such heavy (and full value) coins was Boulton's, not the Treasury's. The Treasury objected to the coins which had an intrinsic value that approached the face value - prior to this, the Royal Mint copper coinage had an intrinsic value that was worth less than one-half the face value. And while all pieces were dated 1797, the coins were struck in both the years 1797 and 1798.

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,427 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's a serious beauty!

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