Hi all
I had a couple of hours out yesterday and found mainly modern coins apart from a 19thC barrel key and a similar age bronze button and this coin, here is where you will have to just have faith and go with me as it doesn't show that well on the photo.
It's a 1806 George III penny, typically it was in terrible condition and the patina had eaten any trace of detail, so nothing to be lost it went into acid for a couple of hours, All that was left to ID it was the outline of the head and by its size it can only be George III 1806. The cut mark through it I first put down to plough damage but now after cleaning it is clear that George has been deliberately "beheaded".
I have read up on this period in history and by all accounts even with his madness he was a well liked king, the only two things that I can find that would possibly be held against him was by the Americans (war of independence) and the catholic Irish (he was very anti-catholic).
I'm sure I read about coins having this done to them but can't remember if it was to this monarch. Has anybody else found a coin with this done to it.
Chef
