Great Britain (1619-25) half penny

Stack's Bowers September 2025 Collectors Choice sale, lot 75465

This specimen was lot 75465 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2025), where it sold for $660. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. 1/2 Penny, ND (1619-25). London Mint. James I. PCGS MS-63. From the Richard August Collection." This issue was not mintmarked so can only be dated to the time of the third coinage (1619-25). This tiny coin must have been annoying to make and to use. When Charles II reintroduced the half penny in 1672, common sense finally prevailed and the coin was made of copper.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 0.25 g, 0.925 fine silver, 10 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: S-2673; KM-54.

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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Great Britain (1619-25) half penny

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