½ Penny (Hampshire - Portsmouth / Thomas Sharp) Coin

½ Penny (Hampshire - Portsmouth / Thomas Sharp)

Country: United Kingdom
Denomination: 1/2 Penny (1/480)
Year: (1797)
Material: Copper
Weight: 10 g
Shape: Round
Diameter: 29 mm
Type: Token
Catalog list: united kingdom

Description:

Obverse

King Nautilus, standing right (on sea chariot drawn by two sea-horses behind and to the right) with a wreath of laurel held in the right hand, while his left grasps a symbolical trident, crowning Admiral Sir John Jervis - in uniform and bare headed seated on a rock with his left arm folded across his chest, and holding a scroll in his right hand. Background of sea.

Reverse

Seven-line inscription

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