Great Britain 1860 shilling

Heritage sale 3021, lot 20986

photo courtesy Heritage Auction Galleries

This specimen was lot 20986 in Heritage sale 3021 (New York, January 2013), where it sold for $1,410. The catalog description^[1] noted, "Victoria Shilling 1860, Young Head, MS66 PCGS, fully struck, superb with light golden gray toning. Rarer date. From The Kairos Collection." This shilling was struck 1838-87 for circulation. This is a slightly better date.

Recorded mintage: 1,671,000.

Specification: 5.65 g, 0.925 fine silver.

Catalog reference: S-3904, KM 734.1.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th 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]Bierrenbach, Cristiano, Warren Tucker and David Michaels, Heritage World and Ancient Coins Auction 3021, featuring the Cecil Webster, Richard P. Ariagno and Elizabeth McPhall Charters Collection, Dallas: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2012.

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