Great Britain 1869 farthing

Goldberg sale 117, lot 2564

This specimen was lot 2564 in Goldberg sale 117 (Los Angeles, September 2020), where it sold for $168. The catalog description^[1] noted, "Great Britain. Farthing, 1869. Victoria. A proof/specimen example with lovely mirror surfaces. Mint state and rare. PCGS graded MS-65 Brown." The bronze farthing was struck in moderate numbers 1860-69 and 1872-73 with a toothed border and 1874-95 with minor changes to Britannia.

Recorded mintage: 3,226,000.

Specification: 2.86 g, bronze, 20 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: S.3958; KM-747.2.

Source:

• Skingley, Philip, ed., Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of England & the United Kingdom, 46th edition, London: Spink & Son, 2011.
• 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.
• 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.
• ^[1]Goldberg, Ira, Larry Goldberg, John Lavender, Yifu Che, Jason Villareal and Stephen Harvey, Goldberg Sale 117: the Pre-Long Beach Auction, Los Angeles: Goldberg Coins and Collectibles, 2020.

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