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1 Penny - George III
| Issuer | Isle of Man |
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| Year | 1798-1813 |
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| Currency | Pound (1709-1839) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of George III facing right, rendered in high relief within a raised inner circle. The effigy, engraved by Conrad Heinrich Küchler in the neoclassical style, shows the king with flowing hair tied at the nape and a laurel wreath crowning his head. The peripheral legend GEORGIVS III . D:G . REX is distributed around the upper arc of the coin, separated by pellets, with the date 1798 positioned in the lower exergual area of the legend below the bust. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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These pennies were struck by Matthew Boulton's Soho Mint in Birmingham under contract — the same facility responsible for the celebrated British cartwheel coinage of 1797. Boulton's steam-powered presses produced a consistently high-relief strike that hand-operated minting could not match, and the Isle of Man authorities specifically sought him out for that reason.
The long date span reflects restriking from original dies rather than continuous production runs.