England 1594 6 pence

Steve Album sale 30, lot 1157

This specimen was lot 1157 in Stephen Album sale 30 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2018), where it sold for $141. The catalog description^[1] noted, "ENGLAND: Elizabeth I, 1558-1603, AR sixpence, 1594, sixth issue, a few small field marks, woolpack mintmark, Fine to VF." The government experimented with milled coinage in the 1560's but reverted to hammered coinage when output was too slow. The woolpack mintmark was used 1594-6. The shilling was 96 grains, 0.925 fine, so we have assigned this a weight of 48 grains. This type is priced about the same as other sixpences (S.2561, 2572, 2585).

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 0.925 fine silver, 48 grains.

Catalog reference: Spink-2578B.

Source:

• ^[1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 30, featuring the George Anderson Collection of Tibetan Coins, the Dr. John W. Lund Collection of Swedish Coins and the Mike Edwards Collection, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2018.
• 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.

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