Great Britain 1885 3 pence

from the Stack's Bowers 2020 Collector's Choice sale, lot 70787

This specimen was lot 70787 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, February 2020), where it sold for $110. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. 3 Pence, 1885. London Mint. Victoria. NGC MS-64. A lovely near-Gem with concentric bands of rainbow tone circling both sides." This threepence, roughly equal to a half dime, was struck 1838-87 and is common in all grades.

Recorded mintage: 5,188,000 + 4,488 for the Maundy sets.

Specification: 1.41 g, 0.925 fine silver, 16 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: S-3914D; KM-730.

Source:

• Skingley, Philip, ed., Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of England & the United Kingdom, 46th edition, London: Spink & Son, 2011.
• 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.
• Rayner, P. Alan, and Maurice Bull, English Silver Coinage from 1649, 6th Ed., London: Spink & Son, 2015.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The February 2020 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2020.

Link to:

• 1882 threepence
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• 1885 farthing
• 1885 half penny
• 1885 penny
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• 1885 shilling
• 1885 florin
• 1885 half crown
• 1885 half sovereign
• 1885 sovereign
• 1886 threepence
• Coins and currency dated 1885