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Latest revision as of 11:40, 18 February 2025
This specimen was lot 74822 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2024), where it sold for $216. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Maundy 2 Pence, 1867. London Mint. Victoria. PCGS MS-66. A lustrous example with dappled gold toning on the obverse and a lovely even rose gold on the reverse." This type was struck 1838-87. Except for a few dates struck for the colonies (1838, 1843 and 1848), the halfgroat had no circulating function and appeared only in the Maundy sets.
Recorded mintage: 4,752.
Specification: 0.94 g, 0.925 fine silver, 13 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: S-3919; KM-729.
- 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.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- 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.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, September 2024 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.
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