Great Britain 1918 farthing

Stack's Bowers 2023 NYINC sale, lot 41839

This specimen was lot 41839 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2023), where it sold for $264. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Farthing, 1918. London Mint. George V. PCGS MS-65." This subtype was struck for George V 1911-18 and all dates are priced the same. Those made between 1897 and 1917 were artificially blackened to prevent the unscrupulous from passing them off as half sovereigns.

Recorded mintage: 19,363,000.

Specification: 2.8 g, bronze, 20 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: S-4059; KM-808.1.

Source:

• Bressett, Kenneth E., A Guide Book of English Coins, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 2nd Ed., Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing, 1962.
• 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.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• 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, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The January 2023 NYINC Auction: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, featuring the Taraszka Collection and the Mark and Dottie Salton Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.

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• 1909 farthing
• 1918 half penny
• 1918 penny
• 1918-H penny
• 1918-KN penny
• 1918 sixpence
• 1918 half crown
• 1922 farthing
• Coins and currency dated 1918