Great Britain 1829 half crown

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Stack's Bowers 2021 ANA sale, lot 44630
photo courtesy Stack's Bowers LLC

This specimen was lot 44630 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Costa Mesa, CA, August 2021), where it sold for $1,020. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. 1/2 Crown, 1829. London Mint. George IV. PCGS MS-62 Gold Shield. A pleasing, boldly struck coin with softly lustrous, original surfaces and gentle gray toning throughout. From the Sundial Valley Farms Collection." This type was struck 1824-29. Heavily circulated, it is scarce in nice condition.

Recorded mintage: 508,000.

Specification: 14.14 g, 0.925 fine silver, .420 troy oz ASW.

Catalog reference: S-3809; KM-695.

Source:

  • Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
  • 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.
  • 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, The August 2021 ANA sale: World and Ancient Coins, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.

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