Jersey 1 penny 1983 - Hocq Tower

The coin's story

In 1983, Jersey renewed its coins with a series whose reverses show monuments of the island. On the penny, Robert Lowe engraved the Hocq Tower, in St Clement, on the south-east coast. It is one of the round towers that Governor Henry Seymour Conway had built along the coast at the end of the 18th century to protect the island against French landings. The date left the reverse and moved below Arnold Machin's portrait of Elizabeth II. In 1983, the first year of the type, the Royal Mint struck 500,000 pieces. The bronze penny was struck until 1992, before changing to copper-plated steel as in the United Kingdom.