Great Britain 1846 penny

from the Stack's Bowers 2018 NYINC sale, lot 22920

This specimen was lot 22920 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2018), where it sold for $336. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Penny, 1846. PCGS MS-63 BN Secure Holder. Far colon. Glossy brown surfaces with traces of mint red. From the Brighton Collection." This penny was struck 1838-60 and is fairly common in circulated condition. It shares the same design with the farthing and half penny. This date has "near colon" and "far colon" varieties, with the near colon being scarcer. The colon in question is the one next to the trident on the reverse.

Recorded mintage: 484,000, a better date.

Specification: 18.8 g, copper.

Catalog reference: S-3948; KM-739.

Source:

• ^[1]Ponterio, Richard, Kyle Ponterio, John Kraljevich and Cris Chatigny, The January 2018 NYINC Sale: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, featuring the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2017.
• Bressett, Kenneth E., A Guide Book of English Coins, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 2nd Ed., Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing, 1962.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• 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.

Link to:

• 1845 penny
• 1846 half penny
• 1846 sixpence
• 1846 shilling
• 1846 half crown
• 1846 half sovereign
• 1846 sovereign
• 1847 penny
• Coins and currency dated 1846