Great Britain 1820 shilling

from Stack's Bowers 2016 ANA sale, lot 22492

This specimen was lot 22492 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Anaheim, CA, August 2016), where it sold for $129.25. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Shilling, 1820. NGC MS-61. Highly lustrous covered with medium golden gray toning." The type was struck 1816-20 and features the bust of George III, by then subject to the regency of his son the Prince of Wales. This date is common.

Recorded mintage: 7,975,000.

Specification: 5.65 g, 0.925 fine silver, .168 troy oz.

Catalog reference: S-3790; KM-666.

Source:

• Bressett, Kenneth E., A Guide Book of English Coins, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 2nd Ed., Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing, 1962.
• 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, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[1]Ponterio, Richard, The August 2016 Anaheim ANA Auction: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2016.

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