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1 Penny - George III
| Issuer | Bermuda |
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| Year | 1793 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Bermuda's 1793 penny was struck in Birmingham by the Soho Mint under Matthew Boulton — the same operation that would soon revolutionize British coinage. The island had long suffered from a chronic shortage of small change, with Spanish, Portuguese, and locally cut coins all circulating in an uneasy parallel economy. This issue was a private commercial venture rather than a Crown directive, commissioned by Bermuda merchants specifically to address that shortage.
Boulton used his steam-powered presses, giving these coppers a precision and edge consistency that hand-struck colonial issues could not match. The contract predates his famous 1797 British cartwheel pennies by four years.