Great Britain 1853 1/4 farthing

Stack's Bowers 2022 NYINC sale, lot 7310

This specimen was lot 7310 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2022), where it sold for $192. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. 1/4 Farthing, 1853. London Mint. Victoria. PCGS MS-62 Brown. A boldly struck little coin with flashy luster and some remaining mint red in the fields. This diminutive and RARE denomination was stuck for only five years, and was only intended for circulation in Ceylon (no demand for such a small coin existed in Great Britain)." This denomination is listed for 1839 and 1851-53. Its face value was 1/3840 of a sovereign. Today the type is not rare but brings a good price because of its popularity among collectors.

Recorded mintage: 1,920,000 plus proofs.

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.
Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
Freeman, Michael J., The Bronze Coinage of Great Britain, Rev. Ed., London: Spink & Son, 2006.
Peck, C. Wilson, English Copper, Tin and Bronze Coins in the British Museum, 1558-1958, 2nd Ed., London: Oxford University Press, 1970.
Skingley, Philip, ed., Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of England & the United Kingdom, 46th edition, London: Spink & Son, 2011.
Lobel, Richard, Mark Davidson, Allan Hailstone and Eleni Calligas, Coincraft's Standard Catalogue of English and UK Coins, 1066 to Date, London: Coincraft, 1995.
^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The 2022 NYINC Sale: World and Ancient Coins, featuring the Mark and Lottie Salton Collection and the Pat Johnson Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.

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