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1/2 Crown - George III 1st portrait
| Uitgever | Royal Mint |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1816-1817 |
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| Valuta | Pound sterling (1158-1970) |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Large laureate bare-headed bust of George III facing right, engraved in the so-called 'Bull Head' style, with a prominent laurel wreath tied with a ribbon trailing behind the neck, rendered in high relief with finely detailed flowing hair. The truncation of the bust is broad and unadorned. The circumferential Latin legend reads GEORGIUS III DEI GRATIA, separated by the portrait, with the four-digit date 1816 placed in the exergue below the bust. The design is enclosed within a fine dentilated border. |
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| Schrift voorzijde | Latin |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
The halfcrown of 1816 arrived as part of the Great Recoinage — a sweeping overhaul driven by decades of monetary chaos during the Napoleonic Wars, when silver coinage had effectively vanished from circulation and unofficial tokens filled the void. Boulton and Watt's steam-powered presses at the Royal Mint's new Tower Hill facility made this recoinage technically possible at a scale previous generations couldn't have managed.
Benedetto Pistrucci cut the dies, though the portrait here predates his celebrated work on the sovereign. The series was retired almost immediately; a revised portrait replaced it by 1817's later strikings, making the production window exceptionally short.