Great Britain 1868 farthing

Stack's Bowers 2022 NYINC sale, lot 7312

This specimen was lot 7312 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2022), where it did not sell. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Farthing (1/4 Penny), 1868. London Mint. Victoria. PCGS PROOF-64 Red Brown. This boldly struck Proof exhibits a lot of flash and abundant mind red bloom in the fields." The bronze farthing was struck in moderate numbers 1860-73 with a toothed border and 1874-95 with minor changes to Britannia. The proofs are rare.

Recorded mintage: 4,851,000 plus proofs.

Specification: 2.86 g, bronze, 20 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: S-3958; KM-747.2.

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.
• 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.
• Skingley, Philip, ed., Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of England & the United Kingdom, 46th edition, London: Spink & Son, 2011.
• Lobel, Richard, Mark Davidson, Allan Hailstone and Eleni Calligas, Coincraft's Standard Catalogue of English and UK Coins, 1066 to Date, London: Coincraft, 1995.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The 2022 NYINC Sale: World and Ancient Coins, featuring the Mark and Lottie Salton Collection and the Pat Johnson Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.

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