Jersey 1866 1/13 shilling
This specimen was lot 1358 in Stephen Album sale 30 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2018), where it sold for $111.62. The catalog description[1] noted, "JERSEY: Victoria, 1837-1901, AE 1/13 shilling, 1866, lovely chocolate brown luster! NGC graded MS63 BR." Jersey, one of the Channel Islands, has been a British dependency since Plantagenet times yet possesses a distinct coinage. Until 1877, it took thirteen pence to make a shilling instead of the usual twelve. Altho this coin was struck to the standard of a typical British penny, it was theoretically worth less. In 1877, the system was adjusted to match mainland coinage (see KM 8) yet copper issues continued to be denominated in fractions of a shilling rather than in pence. This type was struck 1866, 1870-71. Enough were saved that it is not rare.
Recorded mintage: 173,000 plus a few proofs.
Specification: copper.
Catalog reference: KM-5.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- Lobel, Richard, Mark Davidson, Allan Hailstone and Eleni Calligas, Coincraft's Standard Catalogue of the Coins of Scotland, Ireland, Channel Islands & Isle of Man, London: Coincraft, 1999.
- Skingley, Philip, ed., Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of Scotland, Ireland and the Islands (Jersey, Guernsey, Man & Lundy), Pre-Decimal Issues, 2nd edition, London: Spink & Son, 2003.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 30, featuring the George Anderson Collection of Tibetan Coins, the Dr. John W. Lund Collection of Swedish Coins and the Mike Edwards Collection, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2018.
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