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''Recorded mintage:'' unknown but not rare. | ''Recorded mintage:'' unknown but not rare. | ||
| − | ''Specification:'' 6.02 g, .925 fine silver. | + | ''Specification:'' 6.02 g, 0.925 fine silver. |
''Catalog reference:'' KM 539.1, S-3645. | ''Catalog reference:'' KM 539.1, S-3645. | ||
Revision as of 19:45, 23 August 2023
This specimen was lot 30651 in Heritage sale 3029 (New York, January 2014), where it sold for $734.38. The catalog description[1] noted, "George I Shilling 1715, 1st Bust, Roses & Plumes reverse, MS62 NGC. Lovely old-time blue iridescence perfectly sheathes the original gray surfaces of this example of the first year shilling for the Hanoverian king. There are a variety of reverses from this period: some are plain or without ornament in the angles of the royal shield; another is famously adorned with the initials of the South Seas Company. At the beginning of the reign we see the Roses & Plumes, to signify that the silver used for coinage came from the Company for Smelting Pit Coale and Sea Coale; this ornament appeared irregularly on various denominations through the first half of the 18th century, then was seen no more. This is a scarce shilling, charming in its eye-appeal, and seldom found in this condition." This shilling was struck in some numbers 1715-23 and 1715 and 1718 are the most available dates.
Recorded mintage: unknown but not rare.
Specification: 6.02 g, 0.925 fine silver.
Catalog reference: KM 539.1, S-3645.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- 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.
- [1]Bierrenbach, Cristiano, Stuart Levine and Bruce Lorich, Heritage World and Ancient Coins Auction 3029, featuring Selections from the Eric P. Newman Collection, Part III, Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2013.
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