England (1560-61) groat
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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.
- 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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