Great Britain 1724 farthing

Stack's Bowers 2021 ANA sale, lot 44579

photo courtesy Stack's Bowers LLC

This specimen was lot 44579 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Costa Mesa, CA, August 2021), where it sold for $75. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Farthing (1/4 Penny), 1724. London Mint. George I. NGC VF-20. A deeply colored Farthing with no noteworthy flaws for the grade." This type was struck 1719-24 and is common up thru Fine condition.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper.

Catalog reference: S-3662; KM-556.

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.
• Skingley, Philip, ed., Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of England & the United Kingdom, 46th edition, London: Spink & Son, 2011.
• Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The August 2021 ANA sale: World and Ancient Coins, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.

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