Great Britain 1692 crown

Heritage sale 3015, lot 24880

photo courtesy Heritage Auction Galleries

This specimen was lot 24880 in Heritage sale 3015 (Long Beach, September 2011), where it sold for $9,775. The catalog description^[1] noted,

"William & Mary Crown 1692, QVARTO edge date, MS61 NGC, bright luster, pleasingly mark-free portraits, slight bit of softness of strike at 12 o'clock on each side but generally this coin is nice and sharp in its details, finer than most seen. A series of horizontal diebreaks in the first quadrant of the reverse shield. This coin grows on you, the more you study it. Rare! The 2011 SCBC value is £4,500 in EF with no higher price given because that is the best grade generally available. Pricing this excellent crown at that, the value is about US$7200. It should be worth more but the bidders will decide."

This type is recorded for 1692-93. Queen Mary died in 1694 and the crowns of 1695-1700 bore William III alone.

Recorded mintage: unknown but scarce.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: S3433, ESC83, KM 478, Dav-3780.

Source:

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.
Davenport, John S., European Crowns, 1600-1700, Galesburg, IL, 1974.
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]Cristiano Bierrenbach and Warren Tucker, Heritage World Coin Auction 3015, Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2011.

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