British Honduras 1885 cent
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This specimen was lot 72048 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Santa Ana, CA, May 2017), where it sold for $199.75. The catalog description[1] noted, "BRITISH HONDURAS. Cent, 1885. NGC MS-64 BN. Good strike with glossy brown surfaces and traces of mint red." This bronze type was issued 1885-1894 and is common in low grade.
Recorded mintage: 72,000.
Specification: bronze.
Catalog reference: KM-6.
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- Pridmore, F., The Coins of the British Commonwealth of Nations to the end of the Reign of George VI 1952: Part 3, Bermuda, British Guiana, British Honduras and the British West Indies, London: Spink & Son, 1965.
- Stickney, Brian, A Monetary History of Central America, New York: American Numismatic Society, 2017.
- [1]Ponterio, Rick, et al., The May 2017 Collector's Choice Sale, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2017.
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