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½ Penny (British Copper Company - Mercury)
Country: United Kingdom
Denomination: 1/2 Penny
(1/480)
Year: (1809-1810)
Material: Copper
Weight: 8.49 g
Shape: Round
Diameter: 28.9 mm
Type: Token
Catalog list: united kingdom
Description:
Obverse
Head of Mercury left, wearing a winged petasus, a caduceus behind the shoulder.
Reverse
Britannia seated left, holding olive branch and trident, a union shield at her side, BCC on the ground below; all -within an oak-wreath with 17 leaves on the left, 18 on the right: 18 acorns, 9 on each side; the the centre and right prong of the trident touches a leaf. An acorn on a long stalk touches the baseline beneath Britannia's foot.
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