Great Britain 1708 2 pence

Stack's Bowers September 2025 Collectors Choice sale, lot 75550

This specimen was lot 75550 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 2 Pence, 1708. London Mint. Anne. PCGS AU-58. From the Richard August Collection." The silver halfgroat was struck for queen Anne 1708-10 and 1713 in sufficient numbers that it is fairly common today. It is still struck in silver for the Maundy sets but was superseded for circulation by the copper penny in 1797.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 1.00 g, 0.925 fine silver, 14 mm diameter, plain edge.

Catalog reference: S-3597A; KM-513.

Sources:

• 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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