Great Britain 1690 half crown

Stack's Bowers 2022 ANA sale, lot 36014

This specimen was lot 36014 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Chicago, August 2022), where it sold for $720. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. 1/2 Crown, 1690. London Mint. William III & Mary II. PCGS VF-35." This type was struck 1689-90 and the 1690 is the scarcer date. The subsequent type added the royal monogram to the reverse.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 15.05 g, 0.925 fine silver.

Catalog reference: S-3435; KM-472.2; ESC-847.

Source:

• Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
• Lobel, Richard, Mark Davidson, Allan Hailstone and Eleni Calligas, Coincraft's Standard Catalogue of English and UK Coins, 1066 to Date, London: Coincraft, 1995.
• 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, The 2022 ANA Auction - Ancients & World Coins - Featuring The Salton Collection Part III, the Augustana Collection and the Robert C. Knepper Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.

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