Mauritius 1962 2 cents
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This specimen was lot 1662 in Stephen Album sale 30 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2018), where it sold for $223.25. The catalog description[1] noted, "MAURITIUS: Victoria, 1952-1968, AE 2 cents, 1962, VIP proof of record, almost entirely red, virtually no brown, NGC graded PF63 RBC." This type was struck 1953-78 in moderate quantities tho no date is rare. Proofs are scarce. The portrait is of Elizabeth II, not Victoria as stated in the catalog description.
Recorded mintage: 250,000 plus proofs.
Specification: 3.85 g, bronze, 23.2 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-32.
- 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 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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