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1806 1/2 Penny Bahama Gelious III

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1806 1/2 Penny Bahama Gelious III
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Grade VG-8

Obverse King George III facing right
Reverse Ship under sail


In 1803 the Bahamas Assembly ordered copper pennies from Boulton's Soho Mint in Birmingham. They were issued in 1806. The local population in the Bahamas preferred cut silver to copper tokens and so these coins were refused by the local population. Thus the project to mint coppers was abandoned.