Great Britain 1987 pound
This specimen was lot 41860 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2023), where it sold for $60. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Silver Pound Piefort, 1987. Llantrisant Mint. Elizabeth II. PCGS PROOF-70 Deep Cameo." The one pound coin was introduced to retire the one pound note, or "quid". Its design cycled through English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish reverses. The English reverse shown here was struck in 1987 and 1992.
Recorded mintage: 39,298,502 plus 88,659 copper-nickel proofs plus 50,000 silver proofs plus silver pieforts.
Specification: 9.5 g, nickel-brass, 22.5 mm diameter, lettered edge. Silver proofs are 9.5 g, 0.925 fine silver. Pieforts are 19 g, 0.925 fine silver (double weight).
Catalog reference: KM 948 (regular issue), KM 948a (silver proof), S-4333; KM-P7 (piefort).
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- 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.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The January 2023 NYINC Auction: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, featuring the Taraszka Collection and the Mark and Dottie Salton Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.
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- 1984 pound, Scottish reverse, silver piefort
- 1986 half sovereign
- 1986 sovereign
- 1986 2 pounds, Commonwealth Games
- 1986 5 pounds
- 1987 penny
- 1987 half sovereign
- 1987 sovereign
- 1987 2 pounds
- 1987 10 pounds, 1/10 oz gold Britannia
- 1987 25 pounds, ¼ oz gold Britannia
- 1987 50 pounds, ½ oz gold Britannia
- 1987 100 pounds, 1 oz gold Britannia
- 1988 penny
- 1988 half sovereign
- 1988 sovereign
- Coins and currency dated 1987