Great Britain 1900 penny

Stack's Bowers 2021 ANA sale, lot 44671

photo courtesy Stack's Bowers LLC

This specimen was lot 44671 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Costa Mesa, CA, August 2021), where it sold for $75. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Penny, 1900. London Mint. Victoria. PCGS MS-63 Brown Gold Shield. A Penny with glossy luster and a fair amount of remaining mint red in the peripheral areas." This penny was struck 1893-1901 in large numbers.

Recorded mintage: 31,778,000.

Specification: 9.45 g, bronze.

Catalog reference: S-3961; KM-790.

Source:

• 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.
• Freeman, Michael J., The Bronze Coinage of Great Britain, Rev. Ed., London: Spink & Son, 2006.
• Peck, C. Wilson, English Copper, Tin and Bronze Coins in the British Museum, 1558-1958, 2nd Ed., London: Oxford University Press, 1970.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The August 2021 ANA sale: World and Ancient Coins, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.

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