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1/2 Penny George King of B - Half Penny
| Issuer | United Kingdom |
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| Year | 1777 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1777 |
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By 1777, Britain's copper coinage was in chronic disorder. The Royal Mint had struck virtually no regal halfpennies since the early 1770s, leaving a vacuum filled almost entirely by counterfeit copper — contemporary estimates suggested that by the late 1770s, the majority of halfpennies in circulation were struck illegally. This particular issue belongs to a run produced under mounting public complaint about the shortage and quality of small change, though the Mint's output remained inconsistent and insufficient until the Boulton and Watt recoinage of 1797 finally addressed the problem structurally.