1733 Patt Twopence Rosa Americana

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This 1733 Rosa Americana Twopence Pattern is a late or posthumous striking bearing a date nearly a decade after the effective end of the regular Rosa Americana series in 1724. On July 12, 1722 William Wood received a patent to coin 300 tons of money for the American colonies over 14 years. The Rosa Americana twopence, penny and halfpenny are dated 1722, 1723 and 1724 and show the laureate head of George I and a Tudor rose with ROSA AMERICANA UTILE DULCI; they were struck in Bath metal, a brass alloy, at 120 halfpence to the pound. The colonists would not take the light coins, and in 1722 Massachusetts issued small parchment notes partly to keep them out. This pattern twopence shows George II facing left and was made after Wood's death in 1730; Breen knew four, in the British Museum, at Johns Hopkins University, in the Boyd estate and in the Norweb collection. Cataloged as PCGS #143.

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4 known (Breen)