England (1559-60) penny

Stack's Bowers September 2025 Collectors Choice sale, lot 75388

This specimen was lot 75388 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2025), where it sold for $1,020. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Penny, ND (1559-60). London Mint; mm: Lis. Elizabeth I. PCGS Genuine--Environmental Damage, AU Details. Obverse: Crowned bust left with wire-line inner circles; Reverse: Long cross fourchee. From the Richard August Collection." Rare versions of this penny exist dated 1558.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 8 grains (0.51 g), 0.917 fine silver.

Catalog reference: S-2553; N-1988.

Sources:

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]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, September 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, including Selections from the Richard Margolis Collection and Selections from the L.E. Bruun Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.

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England (1559-60) penny

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