Great Britain 1696 shilling

Stack's Bowers February 2022 Collector's Choice sale, lot 74029

This specimen was lot 74029 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2022), where it sold for $528. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Shilling, 1696. William III. NGC MS-62. A pleasing and quite presentable Shilling, with bright luster in the fields and colorful, dark peripheral toning." This type was struck 1695-97 with numerous mintmarks under the great recoinage supervised by Isaac Newton which finally retired all the hammered coinage dating from before the Civil War.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 6.02 g, .925 fine silver.

Catalog reference: S-3497; KM-485.1; ESC-1078.

Source:

• Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
• 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.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The February 2022 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - Ancients & World Coins, Featuring Selections from the Kings Norton Mint Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.

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