Great Britain 1839 crown

Stack's Bowers 2021 ANA sale, lot 40527

This specimen was lot 40527 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Costa Mesa, CA, August 2021), where it sold for $27,600. The catalog description^[1] noted, "Stunning & Majestic Victorian Proof Crown, GREAT BRITAIN. Crown, 1839. London Mint. Victoria. PCGS PROOF-63 Gold Shield. Plain edge. An entrancing and exotic proof issue, this 'delayed' type--referred to as such on account of it being produced two years after the beginning of Victoria's reign--features a razor sharp strike with immense underlying brilliance and a dazzling tone composed of cobalt, olive-gray, and deep amber. A momentous opportunity for the advanced collector of Victorian types, proof issues, or even those emanating from the skillful hand of William Wyon." The 1839 was struck only in proof but crowns using this design were struck for circulation 1844-47.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 28.27 g, 0.925 fine silver, .840 troy oz ASW.

Catalog reference: S-3882; Dav-105; KM-741.

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.
Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
^[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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