Great Britain 1903 half crown

Goldberg sale 110, lot 2427

This specimen was lot 2427 in Goldberg sale 110 (Los Angeles, June 2019), where it did not sell. The catalog description^[1] noted, "Great Britain. Halfcrown, 1903. Edward VII. Obverse: Bust of king right by De Saulles. EDWARDVS VII DEI GRA : BRITT: OMN: REX Reverse: Crowned shield within royal garter. Well struck with great detail on the king's portrait. Mint state. The second rarest of all the Halfcrowns from this brief reign. NGC graded MS-61." This is the second key date after 1905 for this type struck 1902-10.

Recorded mintage: 275,000.

Specification: 14.14 g, 0.925 fine silver, .471 troy oz ASW, 32.3 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: S.3980; ESC-748; KM-802.

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]Goldberg, Ira, Larry Goldberg, John Lavender, Yifu Che, Jason Villareal and Stephen Harvey, Goldberg Sale 110: the Pre-Long Beach Auction, Los Angeles: Goldberg Coins and Collectibles, 2019.

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• 1902 half crown
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• 1904 half crown
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