Description
George III, King of the United Kingdom 1760-1820 AD, Silver Emergency Issue Bank of England Dollar dated 1804, struck at the Soho Mint, Birmingham entirely over a Spanish 8 Reales. Engraved by C H Kuchler. Obverse: Draped, Laureate Bust of King George III facing right, legend around, “GEORGIUS III DEI GRATIA REX” (“George III, by the Grace of God, King”), ‘C.H.K’ on truncation. Reverse: Britannia seated facing left, holding an olive branch and her spear and shield to her left, “K” in relief under shield, cornucopia below, beehive of industry to lower left, all within castellated garter, legend on garter “FIVE SHILLINGS DOLLAR”, legend around, “BANK OF ENGLAND 1804”. Very well struck with virtually no residual design from the host coin present. Lustrous Good Extremely Fine and Scarce
In response to the issue of counterfeited oval and octagonal counter-stamp Emergency Dollars, the Soho Mint issued this new Bank of England Dollars which had designs that completely overstruck the host coin, making forgeries much less likely.
