Great Britain 1913 shilling

Steve Album sale 38, lot 3473

This specimen was lot 3473 in Stephen Album sale 38 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2020), where it sold for $53.20. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN: George V, 1910-1936, AR shilling, 1913, full cartwheel luster, PCGS graded MS64." The silver shilling was struck in this fineness until 1920, when it was debased to 0.500 fine. This is the best date.

Recorded mintage: 4,545,000.

Specification: 5.65 g, 0.925 fine silver.

Catalog reference: KM-816, S-4013.

Source:

• 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.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 38, featuring the Dabestani Collection of Persian Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2020.

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