Great Britain 1702 4 pence
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This specimen was lot 75527 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2025), where it sold for $168. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Maundy 4 Pence, 1702. London Mint. William III. PCGS AU-58. From the Richard August Collection." In this period, the threepence and sixpence superseded the groat but the old medieval denomination continued to be struck.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. This denomination was not struck for queen Anne in this year.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 31 grains (2.0 g), 0.925 fine silver, 17 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: S-3549; 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]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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