England 1562 3 pence

Stack's Bowers September 2025 Collectors Choice sale, lot 75430

This specimen was lot 75430 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2025), where it sold for $1,440. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. 3 Pence, 1562. London Mint. Elizabeth I. PCGS AU-50. Obverse: Crowned bust left; Reverse: Long cross fourchee. From the Richard August Collection." Shown on this threepence is mintmark 23 (moline/six pointed star). This milled coin is without the inner circle of pearls and was struck 1562 only, The hammered version is S-2565.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 24 grains (1.55 g), 0.925 fine silver.

Catalog reference: S-2603; N-2034.

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 1562 3 pence

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