Great Britain 1886 2 pence

Stack's Bowers September 2024 Collector's Choice sale, lot 74823

This specimen was lot 74823 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2024), where it sold for $264. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Maundy 2 Pence, 1886. London Mint. Victoria. PCGS MS-67. A lustrous high grade example with generous rose gold obverse surfaces with cerulean peripheries, with the reverse transitioning outward from white argent to lilac to cobalt. Very attractive." 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: 9,167.

Specification: 0.94 g, 0.925 fine silver, 13 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: S-3919; KM-729.

Source:

• 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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