Great Britain 1946 shilling KM-854

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from the Cruzer Collection
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formerly in the Mountain Groan Collection
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After Scotland was merged with England by the Act of Union of 1707, Scottish symbols and badges disappeared from British coinage. Deference to local sentiment led the mint to struck separate designs for Scotland and England on the reverse of the shilling. This issue of 1937 was the first year this change was implemented and it was maintained until the shilling was retired in 1970. This was the last year silver was used for the shilling.

Recorded mintage: 24,565,000.

Specification: 5.66 g, 0.500 fine silver, 23.55 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: S.4083; KM-854.

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.
  • 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.

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