Great Britain 1870 penny

from the Stack's Bowers 2018 NYINC sale, lot 22963

This specimen was lot 22963 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2018), where it sold for $552. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Penny, 1870. PCGS MS-64 RB Secure Holder. Sharply struck with even tone and a fair amount of mint red. From the Brighton Collection." This penny was struck 1860-73 in several varieties and is common, tho the proofs are rare. Worn specimens fill dealer junk boxes. Numerous varieties exist.

Recorded mintage: 5,695,000, a better date.

Specification: 9.4 g, bronze, 30.8 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: S-3954; KM-749.2.

Source:

• ^[1]Ponterio, Richard, Kyle Ponterio, John Kraljevich and Cris Chatigny, The January 2018 NYINC Sale: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, featuring the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2017.
• Bressett, Kenneth E., A Guide Book of English Coins, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 2nd Ed., Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing, 1962.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th 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.
• 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.

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• 1869 penny
• 1870 half penny
• 1870 1½ pence
• 1870 tuppence
• 1870 threepence
• 1870 sixpence
• 1870 shilling
• 1871 half sovereign
• 1870 florin
• 1870 half sovereign
• 1870 sovereign
• 1871 penny
• Coins and currency dated 1870