England (1560-61) groat

From CoinVarieties
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Stack's Bowers September 2025 Collectors Choice sale, lot 75392
SB925-75392r.jpg

This specimen was lot 75392 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2025), where it sold for $720. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Groat (4 Pence), ND (1560-61). London Mint; mm: Cross Crosslet. Elizabeth I. PCGS AU-50. Obverse: Crowned bust left; Reverse: Square-topped coat-of-arms over long cross fourchee. From the Richard August Collection." The milled version is S-2601. This hammered groat comes with cross crosslet (shown here) or martlet mintmarks.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 32 grains (2.07 g), 0.925 fine silver.

Catalog reference: S-2556; N-1986.

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.

Link to: