What's in a name? English Cartwheel

Not a stupid question at all - I tend to think of a "cartwheel" as being the massive copper issues of 1797. The 1806 in the OP is quite a bit smaller. But the term is a loose one and could probably be applied to any large coin as a kind of numismatic slang (for instance, Morgan/Peace silver dollars are called "cartwheels" sometimes as well). They are all pretty large coins:

1797 penny and penny and twopence:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces947.html
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1287.html

1806 penny:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces12981.html

 

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Love the Queen Ann Crown. I have a lot of cartwheels and others in my collection but not one like that. Impressive and beautiful.

Bruce