Great Britain 1866 1/3 farthing

Stack's Bowers 2014 ANA sale, lot 30603

This specimen was lot 30603 in Stack's Bowers ANA auction (Chicago, August 2014), where it sold for $88. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. 1/3 Farthing, 1866. NGC MS-64 BN. Hints of orange in fields. Ex: Pittman Collection." This type was struck 1866-68 and 1876-85 for several of Britain's colonies.

Recorded mintage: 576,000.

Specification: bronze.

Catalog reference: S-3960; KM-750.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th 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.
• Skingley, Philip, ed., Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of England & the United Kingdom, 46th edition, London: Spink & Son, 2011.
• ^[1]Ponterio, Richard, The August 2014 Chicago ANA Auction: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, Featuring the David O'Harrow Collection, Irvine, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2014.

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