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1773 Counterfeit George III British Halfpenny, GEORGVIS legend error. 101.4 grains.

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1773 Counterfeit George III British Halfpenny, GEORGVIS legend error. 101.4 grains.
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1773 Counterfeit George III British Halfpenny, GEORGVIS legend error. 101.4 grains.Very Good, dark and uniformly rough, a coin that likely spent some time in the ground, but special for the engraving error which rendered the obverse legend as GEORGVIS instead of the correct GEORGIVS. While listed by Cobwright as an evasion copper, it is instead a minor engraving error, of the type known on a number of colonial issues where the wrong letter was punched into the die – indeed, this exact error is known on a perfectly genuine regal issue made at the Tower Mint! Such minor legend faults do not make something an evasion copper any more than it would make the regal issue with a similar error into an evasion. Surprisingly difficult to find, most survivors do seem to be rather low grade, which shows that the legend error did not impede their circulation in the least.