purple silk lid inlay with gold Spink and Son name and address
the finest we have encountered of this usually worn issue
Toned with some very light hairlines
struck unevenly and short of flan
now in raw state again
George III 1790 brown gilt pattern Halfpenny purple silk lid inlay withGeorge III (1760 1820), Pattern brown gilt copper Halfpenny, 1790, early Soho, engraved by Jean Pierre Droz, long haired laureate head right, hair terminates in complete ringlets of hair, DROZ F incuse on truncation, legend with three diamond stops and fleur, toothed border surrounding with raised rim, GEORGIUS III. D. G. REX{, rev. inverted die axis, Britannia seated pointing left on globe with shield, laurel branch behind shield, date between