Great Britain 1909 shilling

Stack's Bowers 2021 ANA sale, lot 44695

photo courtesy Stack's Bowers LLC

This specimen was lot 44695 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Costa Mesa, CA, August 2021), where it sold for $144. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Shilling, 1909. London Mint. NGC AU-58. A Shilling with decent strike, abundant field luster, and traces of almond toning in the peripheries." This type was struck 1902-10 in substantial numbers but nice specimens are scarce. This is a better date.

Recorded mintage: 5,665,000.

Specification: 5.65 g, 0.925 fine silver, .168 troy oz ASW, 23.5 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: S-3982; KM-800.

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.
• 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 August 2021 ANA sale: World and Ancient Coins, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.

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