Great Britain 1984 pound

Stack's Bowers 2023 NYINC sale, lot 41858

This specimen was lot 41858 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2023), where it sold for $40. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Pound Piefort, 1984. Llantrisant Mint. Elizabeth II. PCGS PROOF-69 Deep Cameo. Scottish design." The one pound coin was introduced to retire the one pound note, or "quid". Its design cycled through English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish reverses. This is a one year type because when the Scottish design came up again, a new bust of the queen had been instituted.

Recorded mintage: 146,256,501 plus 106,250 copper-nickel proofs plus 45,000 silver proofs plus silver pieforts.

Specification: 9.5 g, nickel-brass, 22.5 mm diameter, lettered edge. Silver proofs are 9.5 g, 0.925 fine silver. Pieforts are 19 g, 0.925 fine silver (double weight).

Catalog reference: KM 934 (regular issue), KM 934a (silver proof), S-4222; KM-P4 (piefort).

Sources:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• 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.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The January 2023 NYINC Auction: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, featuring the Taraszka Collection and the Mark and Dottie Salton Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.

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