THE WORLD’S FIRST COPPER PENNY COIN & PENNY STAMP. Limited Edition Commemorative Cover with an original Penny Black Stamp + a Cartwheel Penny from 1797! Limited Edition Issue This is Cover No. The cover comes with a Display page, a few words from the reverse of the page. The World’s First Copper Penny & Penny Stamp Commemorative Coin Cover. In addition the Special By Design’ stamp pane with six 1st class definitive stamps bears the image of Queens past and present: Victoria & Elizabeth II. The Penny Black features a side-on profile of the young Queen Victoria, the image adapted by Henry Corbould from an 1837 engraving by William Wyon. With this simple, yet distinctive profile in the foreground, the printer Perkins, Bacon and Petch attempted to reduce the possibility of forgery by adding a detailed background of intricately interwoven lines. From Anglo-Saxon times a pound sterling had consisted of 240 pennies minted from 1lb of Silver. Although predominantly silver, the remainder of each penny coin was copper.. This Cartwheel Penny of 1797 was so-called because of the distinctive raised rim, the obverse edge bearing the Latinised name of the reigning Hanoverian monarch, George III, the reverse edge the word Britannia. Weighing precisely one ounce (28.3g), the Cartwheel Penny was designed by Heinrich Küchler and was minted by Matthew Boulton, whose mint in Soho, Birmingham contained the very latest steam-powered presses. Please see ALL the pictures provided Thank You! FDI: 6th MAY 2000 THE STRAND, LONDON WC2. (BSF25) BD1 (Bd Rm Cpd Tp).
