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[[Image:Great Britain 1935 crown Ponterio 150-9428.jpg|600px|thumb|Ponterio sale 150, lot 9428]] | [[Image:Great Britain 1935 crown Ponterio 150-9428.jpg|600px|thumb|Ponterio sale 150, lot 9428]] | ||
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| − | + | The first coin was lot 9428 in Ponterio sale 150 (Los Angeles, August 2009), where it sold for $718.75. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Crown, 1935. Raised edge lettering. Toned PROOF." The type was struck in 1935 for the silver jubilee of George V's reign. The regular issue crowns of 1927-36 were minted in very small numbers and are rare today. Sterling silver (.925 fine) coinage ceased in 1919. | |
''Recorded mintage:'' 715,000 (all varieties) with 2,500 proofs. | ''Recorded mintage:'' 715,000 (all varieties) with 2,500 proofs. | ||
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| − | [[Category: European crowns and thalers]][[Category: Selections from Ponterio sale 150]] | + | [[Category: European crowns and thalers]][[Category: Selections from Ponterio sale 150]][[Category:Selections from the Mountain Groan Collection]] |
Revision as of 10:02, 6 March 2025
The first coin was lot 9428 in Ponterio sale 150 (Los Angeles, August 2009), where it sold for $718.75. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Crown, 1935. Raised edge lettering. Toned PROOF." The type was struck in 1935 for the silver jubilee of George V's reign. The regular issue crowns of 1927-36 were minted in very small numbers and are rare today. Sterling silver (.925 fine) coinage ceased in 1919.
Recorded mintage: 715,000 (all varieties) with 2,500 proofs.
Specification: 28.27 g, 0.500 fine silver, .454 troy oz ASW, 38.5 mm diameter, designed by Bertram MacKennal and Percy Metcalfe.
Catalog reference: S-4050; KM 842a, Dav-111.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Ponterio, Richard, and Kent Ponterio, Ponterio sale 150: The 2009 Los Angeles ANA Auction, Irvine, CA: Bowers and Merena, 2009.
- 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.
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