Great Britain 1844 1/3 farthing

from the Stack's Bowers 2018 NYINC sale, lot 22945

This specimen was lot 22945 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2018), where it sold for $216. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. 1/3 Farthing, 1844. ANACS MS-64 RB. 'REG'. Struck for use in Malta. Scarce one year type. A few minor carbon spots, sharply struck with nearly full mint red." This type was succeeded by KM 750, struck sporadically 1866-85, and circulated mostly in the colonies. Its face value, 1/2880 of a pound, was too low to be useful in Britain proper

Recorded mintage: 1,301,000.

Specification: copper.

Catalog reference: S-3952; KM-743.

Source:

• ^[1]Ponterio, Richard, Kyle Ponterio, John Kraljevich and Cris Chatigny, The January 2018 NYINC Sale: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, featuring the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2017.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• Bressett, Kenneth E., A Guide Book of English Coins, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 2nd Ed., Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing, 1962.
• 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.

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