Great Britain 1903 half penny

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Goldberg sale 110, lot 2428
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This specimen was lot 2428 in Goldberg sale 110 (Los Angeles, June 2019), where it sold for $54. The catalog description[1] noted, "Great Britain. Halfpenny, 1903. Edward VII. Obverse: Portrait by deSaulles. Reverse: Britannia. Virtually full mint red on this uncirculated specimen. NGC graded MS-64 Red." This is a common date of a type struck 1902-10.

Recorded mintage: 11,451,000.

Specification: 5.20 g, bronze, 25.5 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: S.3991; KM-793.2.

Source:

  • Bressett, Kenneth E., A Guide Book of English Coins, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 2nd Ed., Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing, 1962.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
  • [1]Goldberg, Ira, Larry Goldberg, John Lavender, Yifu Che, Jason Villareal and Stephen Harvey, Goldberg Sale 110: the Pre-Long Beach Auction, Los Angeles: Goldberg Coins and Collectibles, 2019.

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