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1776 Counterfeit George II Halfpenny, British Toon Head Family, Dies 2-76A, George II obverse with a

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1776 Counterfeit George II Halfpenny, British Toon Head Family, Dies 2-76A, George II obverse with a
1776 Counterfeit George II Halfpenny, British Toon Head Family, Dies 2-76A, George II obverse with a George III reverse. 117.8 grains.Very Good, evenly worn and well-used, regardless of the incongruous muling of a George II obverse with a reverse dated 16 years after he died – and dated with a year no regal British halfpence were actually struck! The design details are fully outlined. Britannia’s head and neck are from a prepared punch, while the rest was hand engraved into the die – but the head punch is a little crooked compared to the rest of her body, an interesting anomaly found on most reverses of this family. A few letters in the legend are weaker than the others, but nearly all are visible, the date weak but all there save the bottom of the 6 which is off the planchet as centered. One of the good things about the publication of the first volume of the reference series is that it is now possible to plate match coins like this with better-struck specimens; in the past this type had been called 1731, 1736, 1771, and 1775 based on amount of wear and how much of the date was visible – today we know it is unequivocally 1776, certainly a magic year for the colonial American specialist, though one that the Brtis of the time would likely have preferred to forget. Medium brown, light roughness and the expected marks from a long life in circulation, but an attractive coin for the grade, and an acceptable example of a still-scarce variety.
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