Great Britain 1701 4 pence
This specimen was lot 34166 in Heritage sale 3067 (Long Beach, September 2018), where it sold for $264. The catalog description[1] noted, "Great Britain: William III 4 Pence 1701 MS62 NGC. Evincing numerous signs of a fully Choice piece, this present offering comes unusually crisp for issues of William III, which following the Great Recoinage of 1695 were especially hastily produced and shallowly engraved. Though a few light signs of handling are detectable, the surfaces overall retain a highly original finish, with the silhouette of the reverse design visible around William's portrait." This type was struck 1697-1701. In this period, the threepence and sixpence superseded the groat but the old medieval denomination continued to be struck. It still appears in the Maundy sets.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 2.01 g, 0.925 fine silver.
Catalog reference: KM 495.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- Lobel, Richard, Mark Davidson, Allan Hailstone and Eleni Calligas, Coincraft's Standard Catalogue of English and UK Coins, 1066 to Date, London: Coincraft, 1995.
- 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, Warren Tucker and Sam Spiegel, 2018 September 6-11 Long Beach Expo World Coins & Ancient Coins Signature Auction #3067, Dallas: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2018.
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