Great Britain 1828 6 pence

Stack's Bowers September 2024 Collector's Choice sale, lot 74786

This specimen was lot 74786 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2024), where it sold for $720. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. 6 Pence, 1828. London Mint. George IV. PCGS MS-65. A lovely example of the type with lustrous champagne-hued surfaces and generous portions of icy blue with hints of gold and carmine. A very attractive, high grade coin." This three year type is noted for 1826-29. The mintage recorded here represents a substantial retreat from the levels of 1817-20, when millions were made; this type is decidedly expensive in nice condition. Large mintages would resume in 1834.

Recorded mintage: 16,000.

Specification: 2.82 g, 0.925 fine silver.

Catalog reference: S-3815; KM-698.

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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