Great Britain 1912 half penny

Stack's Bowers 2021 ANA sale, lot 44708

photo courtesy Stack's Bowers LLC

This specimen was lot 44708 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Costa Mesa, CA, August 2021), where it did not sell. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. 1/2 Penny, 1912. London Mint. PCGS MS-64 Red Brown Gold Shield. A lustrous and bright coin, with full mint red in the fields." This half penny was introduced on the accession of George V in 1911 and retained the Britannia reverse first used in 1860. Persistent striking problems caused modifications to the bust in 1925 and again in 1928 tho all the circulating denominations were similarly afflicted. This is a common date.

Recorded mintage: 21,186,000.

Specification: 5.40 g, bronze, 25.5 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM-809; S-4056.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th 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.
• Skingley, Philip, ed., Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of England & the United Kingdom, 46th edition, London: Spink & Son, 2011.
• 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]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The August 2021 ANA sale: World and Ancient Coins, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.

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