Great Britain 1890 2 pence

Heritage sale 3064, part of lot 33118

This specimen was part of lot 33118 in Heritage sale 3064 (Chicago, April 2018), which sold for $384. The catalog description^[1] noted, "Four-Piece Certified Victoria Maundy Set 1890, graded MS65 to MS66 NGC, KM770, -771, -758, and -773. Magenta-colored hues nicely compliment the brilliant cartwheel luster exemplified by all four of these pieces." By Victoria's reign, the silver penny, tuppence and groat were obsolete as circulating coins and were issued only for the Maundy sets as shown here. The silver threepence continued in circulation until after World War Two.

Recorded mintage: 8,613.

Specification: 0.94 g, 0.925 fine silver.

Catalog reference: KM 771.

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]Cristiano Bierrenbach and Warren Tucker, Heritage World Coin Auction 3064, featuring the Doug Robins Collection of Canadian Tokens, Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2018.

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