Great Britain 1708 3 pence

Stack's Bowers September 2025 Collectors Choice sale, lot 75549

This specimen was lot 75549 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, 1708/7. London Mint. Anne. PCGS AU-58. From the Richard August Collection." The silver threepence was struck for queen Anne 1703-10 and 1713 in sufficient numbers that it is fairly common today. It survived as a circulating coin into the reign of George VI.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

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

Catalog reference: S-3596B; KM-514.

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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