Great Britain (1605-06) 2 pence

Stack's Bowers September 2025 Collectors Choice sale, lot 75453

This specimen was lot 75453 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2025), where it sold for $125. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. 1/2 Groat (2 Pence), ND (1605-06). London Mint; mm: Rose. James I. PCGS EF-45. From the Richard August Collection." This type was struck 1604-09 with various mintmarks. The reverse legend "TVEATVR • VNITA • DEVS •" translates as, "May God protect this Union". The silver halfgroat is still struck for the Maundy sets but has long ceased to circulate.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 1.00 g, 0.925 fine silver, 18 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: S-2659; N-2104; KM-24.

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.
Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
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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