Great Britain 1677 3 pence

Stack's Bowers September 2025 Collectors Choice sale, lot 75502

This specimen was lot 75502 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2025), where it sold for $360. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. 3 Pence, 1677. London Mint. Charles II. PCGS MS-62. From the Richard August Collection." This type was struck 1670-84; overdates and varieties abound.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 1.50 g, 0.925 fine silver, 17 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: S-3386; KM-433.

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.
• Rayner, P. Alan, and Maurice Bull, English Silver Coinage from 1649, 6th Ed., London: Spink & Son, 2015.
• 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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