Great Britain 1708-E crown

Stack's Bowers 2021 ANA sale, lot 46039

This specimen was lot 46039 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Costa Mesa, CA, August 2021), where it did not sell. The catalog description^[1] noted, "SCOTLAND. Crown, 1708. Edinburgh Mint; mm: E. Anne. NGC VF Details--Rim Filing. After the Union. Sharply defined with scattered scratches and marks visible under scrutiny. Varying gold and steel-brown tone on each side. Among the last native coins to be struck in Scotland. From the Loch Ness Collection." This type was struck at the London and Edinburgh mints 1707-08 and is very scarce in nice condition.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 30.10 g, 0.925 fine silver, this specimen 29.94 g.

Catalog reference: S-5708; KM-526.1, Dav-1342.

Source:

• 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.
• Davenport, John S., European Crowns, 1700-1800, 2nd Ed., London: Spink & Son, 1964.
• Rayner, P. Alan, and Maurice Bull, English Silver Coinage from 1649, 6th Ed., London: Spink & Son, 2015.
• Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The August 2021 ANA sale: World and Ancient Coins, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.

Link to:

• 1707-E shilling, Edinburgh mint
• 1707-E half crown
• 1707 crown, pre-Union
• 1707-E crown
• 1708 sixpence
• 1708 shilling
• 1708-E shilling, Edinburgh mint
• 1708 half crown, plain reverse
• 1708 crown
• Coins and currency dated 1708