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1 Dollar - George III Pattern, mule
| Issuer | United Kingdom |
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| Year | 1804 |
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| Weight | 38.85 g |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of George III facing left, engraved by John Taylor Wedgwood, with fine detail in the hair and laurel wreath. The king's effigy is rendered in high relief against a flat field, with drapery visible at the shoulder truncation. A beaded border surrounds the design. The Latin legend GEORGIUS III DEI GRATIA REX. runs around the periphery in evenly spaced capital letters. |
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| Obverse lettering | GEORGIUS III DEI GRATIA REX. (Translation: George the Third by the Grace of God King) |
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The 1804 Bank of England dollar has one of the stranger origin stories in British numismatics. Facing a severe shortage of silver coinage during the Napoleonic Wars, the Bank of England counterstamped captured Spanish eight-reales pieces for emergency circulation — then commissioned Matthew Boulton's Soho Mint to strike proper dollars from 1804. The mule pattern in gold almost certainly never left the realm of trial and presentation striking; no gold issue was ever authorized for circulation.
At 38.85g in 22-carat gold, a piece like this represents Soho Mint experimenting with die combinations, likely pairing obverse and reverse dies not originally intended together.