Great Britain 1839 1/4 farthing

from the Stack's Bowers 2019 NYINC sale, lot 43147

This specimen was lot 43147 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2019), where it sold for $70. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. 1/4 Farthing, 1839. PCGS MS-62 BN Gold Shield. Bold strike with deep mahogany surfaces." This type, the lowest denomination English coin ever struck, was issued 1839 and 1851-53. This specimen realized one-fifth of its catalog value.

Recorded mintage: 3,840,000.

Specification: copper.

Catalog reference: S-3953; KM-737.

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, Kyle Ponterio, Matt Orsini and Cris Chatigny, The January 2019 NYINC Sale: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2018.

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