Great Britain 1895 half crown

Stack's Bowers 2019 Collector's Choice sale, lot 72146

This specimen was lot 72146 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, October 2019), where it sold for $156. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. 1/2 Crown, 1895. London Mint. Victoria. PCGS MS-63 Gold Shield. A handsome example of the type, this choice specimen offers an intense argent nature along with sublime luster. Wholly original and brilliant. From the Regent Crest Collection." ead, PR66 Cameo NGC, from the same colorful set as the sixpence, shilling, florin, and crown in this sale, with the same wonderful deep neon-blue iridescence, but there is some disturbance in the color on the obverse and a carbon deposit on reverse, upper left shield." This bust of the queen was used from 1893 until her death in 1901. The type is fairly common. A half crown was two and a half shillings or one-eighth of a pound.

Recorded mintage: 1,773,000.

Specification: 14.13 g, 0.925 fine silver, .420 troy oz ASW.

Catalog reference: S-3938; KM-782.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• 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.
• Skingley, Philip, ed., Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of England & the United Kingdom, 46th edition, London: Spink & Son, 2011.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The October 2019 Collector's Choice Sale: World and Ancient Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2019.

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• 1893 half crown
• 1895 penny
• 1895 sixpence
• 1895 shilling
• 1895 crown
• 1895-B trade dollar
• 1895 half sovereign
• 1896 half crown
• Coins and currency dated 1895