Great Britain 1895 half penny

Stephen Album sale 50, lot 3151

This specimen was lot 3151 in Stephen Album sale 50 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2024), where it sold for $156. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN: Victoria, 1837-1901, AE halfpenny, 1895, fantastic full red coloration, NGC graded MS65 RD. Tied for finest graded at NGC." This type, the last half penny issued for Victoria, was minted 1895-1901. All dates are common.

Recorded mintage: 3,032,000 plus proofs.

Specification: 5.7 g, bronze, 25.5 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM-789, Spink-3962.

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.
• 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.
• 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]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 50, featuring selections from the Dr. Robert A. Rosenfeld Collection, the Hakim Hamidi Collection, the Almer H. Orr III Collection and the Solar Collection, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.

Links to:

• 1893 half penny
• 1895 penny
• 1895 2 pence (halfgroat)
• 1895 sixpence
• 1895 shilling
• 1895 half crown
• 1895 crown
• 1895-B dollar
• 1895 half sovereign
• 1897 half penny
• Coins and currency dated 1895