Obverse: GEORGIVS. III DEI. GRATIA. (no stop over head); laureate and cuirassed bust of George III facing right.
Reverse: .M.B.F.ET.H.REX.F.D.B.ET.L.D.S.R.I.A.T.ET.E.1787 ; cruciform pentagonal shields around star, crowns in angles, no hearts behind lion in Hanoverian shield.
Edge: Diagonally milled /////.
S 3744. ESC 1218. Bull 2133.

It is not generally realised that the issues without hearts was issued in error, corrected only after a large number had been minted.

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