King George Público Deposited
An English dialect term for a half Penny of the eighteenth century. It is common to Cumberlandshire.
Ralph, Miscellaneous Poems, 1747 (96), has the following lines: " A fortune-teller leately com about, And my twea guid King Gweorges I powt out."
- Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)