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Revision as of 18:33, 18 March 2023

Stack's Bowers 2017 NYINC sale, part of lot 6619
photo courtesy Stack's Bowers LLC

This specimen was part of lot 6619 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2017), which sold for $376. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Maundy Set, 1868. NGC MS-63 (1), 64 (1) & 65 (2). Nice even tone, an attractive set. From the Q. David Bowers Collection. Ex: Baldwins Sale #77 09/2012, Lot #2832." This type, KM 729, was struck 1838-87 for Maundy sets only tho this date is common.

Recorded mintage: 4,752.

Specification: .94 g, .925 fine silver.

Catalog reference: KM 729, S-3916; KM-MDS-112 (set); ESC-2480.

Source:

  • 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.
  • Rayner, P. Alan, and Maurice Bull, English Silver Coinage from 1649, 6th Ed., London: Spink & Son, 2015.
  • Skingley, Philip, ed., Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of England & the United Kingdom, 46th edition, London: Spink & Son, 2011.
  • Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
  • [1]Ponterio, Richard, The January 2017 NYINC Sale: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, featuring the Richard Stuart Collection, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2016.

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