Jersey 1986 pound KM-68
This specimen was lot 50223 in Ponterio sale 168 (Philadelphia, August 2012), where it sold for $881. The catalog description[1] noted, "JERSEY. Pound, 1986. NGC PROOF-69 ULTRA CAMEO. Arms of St. Peter Parish. Mintage of 250 pieces. From the Paul Harwell Collection." 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. Today, coinage struck for Jersey is actually intended for sale to collectors, as this example shows.
Recorded mintage: 10,000 in nickel brass, 2,500 in silver and 250 in gold (shown here).
Specification: gold proof: 19.65 g, 0.917 fine gold, .579 troy oz AGW, 22.5 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: Fr-13; KM-68b.
- 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.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
- [1]Ponterio, Richard, Ponterio sale 168: The Official ANA Auction, Irvine, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2012.
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