Great Britain 1867 farthing

from the Stack's Bowers 2020 Collector's Choice sale, lot 70804

This specimen was lot 70804 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, February 2020), where it sold for $204. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Farthing, 1867. London Mint. Victoria. PCGS MS-65 Red Brown Gold Shield. A nicely struck and lustrous gem quality Farthing with abundant mint red in the protected areas." The bronze farthing was struck in moderate numbers 1860-73 with a toothed border and 1874-95 with minor changes to Britannia.

Recorded mintage: 5,018,000 plus proofs.

Specification: 2.86 g, bronze, 20 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: S-3958; KM-747.2.

Source:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The February 2020 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2020.

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