INFAMOUS 1773 VIRGINIA GEO III  COLONIAL COPPER HALF PENNY!

1773 KING GEORGE III ISSUES THIS COIN TO ASSERT BRITISH SOVEREIGNTY OVER VIRGINIA!

OBVERSE: (Quite smoothed down from circulation. King Geo III’s Name is legible, “GEORGIUS” 

which is followed by “III” visible under raking light. The “X” in “REX” (King) is also legible. 

Note that the listing’s photos do succeed in capturing the “III” but not  Rex. 

The reverse, which is really the historical heart of this coin is nicely preserved.

 The Royal Heraldic image under the King’s crown, has four quadrants each finely

 rendering symbols of those colonial possessions comprising the British Empire. 

The surrounding legend  reads “VIRGINIA” and to either side of the crown, “17”--“73”

Condition: Obverse is good. Reverse is Nice fine. Overall surface has fine, brown patina. 

Measures: About 5/8 ths of an inch

What was going on in the Colonies Visa vie Great Britain in 1773?

In late 1773, leaders in many colonies planned to prevent the East India Company

 from landing tea shipments. In Boston, however, the tea ships arrived in port but would 

not leave. On December 16, groups of 50 men each boarded three ships, broke open the tea chests,

 and threw them into the harbor. As news of the "tea party" spread, similar acts

 of resistance occurred in other ports.

Parliament soon responded to this outrage with four acts designed to punish Boston 

and to isolate it from the other colonies. It closed Boston port, reduced Massachusetts'

 powers of self-government, provided for quartering troops in the colonies, and permitted

 royal officers accused of crimes to be tried in England. The British called these acts the coercive acts;

 the colonists called them the Intolerable Acts. Far from isolating Boston, the new laws cast the city in the role

 of martyr and sparked new resistance throughout the colonies.

Three years later, Virginia's Declaration of Rights, framed in 1776, was widely 

copied in other colonies, and served as a model for Jefferson in the first part of the

 Declaration of Independence, and was the basis for the federal Constitution's Bill of Rights.

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