England (1413-22) half penny
This specimen was lot 33572 in Heritage sale 3114 (New York, January 2024), where it sold for $1,320. The lot description[1] noted, "Great Britain: Henry V 1/2 Pence ND (1413-1422) MS61 NGC. A supreme condition for a type that almost always appears in VF and with problems. The top pop at NGC by leaps and bounds, wrapped in sumptuous polychromatic tones and still displaying original glow. From the Abbeygate Collection." The silver penny, the staple of commerce since Alfred the Great, began to be superseded by the groat in the fifteenth century. The silver half penny, tho still needed for small transactions, was an inconvenient coin to strike and was usually neglected by the moneyers.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 0.50 g, silver; this specimen 0.37 g.
Catalog reference: S-1796.
- Lobel, Richard, Mark Davidson, Allan Hailstone and Eleni Calligas, Coincraft's Standard Catalogue of English and UK Coins, 1066 to Date, London: Coincraft, 1995.
- Skingley, Philip, ed., Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of England & the United Kingdom, 46th edition, London: Spink & Son, 2011.
- [1]Cristiano Bierrenbach, Warren Tucker and Sam Spiegel, 2024 January 16 - 18 NYINC World Coins Signature Auction #3114, Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2023.
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