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<p>Created page with &quot;<a href="/index.php/File:SB924-74814o.jpg" title="File:SB924-74814o.jpg">300px|thumb|Stack&#039;s Bowers September 2024 Collector&#039;s Choice sale, lot 74814</a> <a href="/index.php/File:SB924-74814r.jpg" title="File:SB924-74814r.jpg">300px|thumb</a> This specimen was lot 74814 in...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[Image:SB924-74814o.jpg|300px|thumb|Stack's Bowers September 2024 Collector's Choice sale, lot 74814]]<br /> [[Image:SB924-74814r.jpg|300px|thumb]]<br /> <br /> This specimen was lot 74814 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2024), where it sold for $840. The catalog description&lt;sup&gt;[1]&lt;/sup&gt; noted, &quot;[[Great Britain|GREAT BRITAIN]]. Shilling, 1850. London Mint. Victoria. PCGS FINE-15. Dove-gray toning with hints of emerging cobalt on the reverse. An attractive piece with honest, moderate even wear. The key date of the shilling series in an economical grade. Very Rare.&quot; This type was struck 1838-66 in large quantities with a slightly modified obverse continuing until 1887. An 1850-49 overdate is reported for the year.<br /> <br /> ''Recorded mintage:'' 685,000, a rare date.<br /> <br /> ''Specification:'' 5.65 g, 0.925 fine silver, 23.5 mm diameter.<br /> <br /> ''Catalog reference:'' S-3904; KM-734.1. <br /> <br /> ''[[Bibliography|Source:]]''<br /> * Bressett, Kenneth E., ''A Guide Book of English Coins, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 2nd Ed.,'' Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing, 1962.<br /> * Lobel, Richard, Mark Davidson, Allan Hailstone and Eleni Calligas, ''Coincraft's Standard Catalogue of English and UK Coins, 1066 to Date,'' London: Coincraft, 1995.<br /> * Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, ''Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed.'', Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.<br /> * Rayner, P. Alan, and Maurice Bull, ''English Silver Coinage from 1649, 6th Ed.,'' London: Spink &amp; Son, 2015.<br /> * Skingley, Philip, ed., ''Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of England &amp; the United Kingdom, 46th edition,'' London: Spink &amp; Son, 2011.<br /> * &lt;sup&gt;[1]&lt;/sup&gt;Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, ''September 2024 World Collectors Choice Online Auction,'' Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.<br /> <br /> ''Link to:''<br /> * [[Great Britain 1849 shilling|1849 shilling]]<br /> * [[Great Britain 1850 farthing|1850 farthing]]<br /> * [[Great Britain 1850 6 pence|1850 sixpence]]<br /> * [[Great Britain 1850 half crown|1850 half crown]]<br /> * [[Great Britain 1850 1/2 sovereign|1850 half sovereign]]<br /> * [[Great Britain 1850 sovereign|1850 sovereign]]<br /> * [[Great Britain 1851 shilling|1851 shilling]]<br /> * [[Coins and currency dated 1850]]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Selections from the Stack's Bowers 2024 Collector's Choice sale]]</div>

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