Great Britain 1912 half crown

Steve Album sale 38, lot 3474

This specimen was lot 3474 in Stephen Album sale 38 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2020), where it did not sell. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN: George V, 1910-1936, AR halfcrown, 1912, PCGS graded AU58." The silver half crown (2½ shillings) was struck in this fineness until 1920, when it was debased to 0.500 fine. The SCWC notes that the large mintages of World War One were accompanied by weak strikes.

Recorded mintage: 4,701,000.

Specification: 14.14 g, 0.925 fine silver.

Catalog reference: KM-818.1, S-4011.

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.
• 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.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 38, featuring the Dabestani Collection of Persian Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2020.

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• 1912 half penny
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• 1912-H penny
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• 1912-B dollar
• 1912 half sovereign
• 1912 sovereign
• 1913 half crown
• Coins and currency dated 1912