Great Britain 1816 shilling
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This specimen was lot 606 in Stack's Coin Galleries sale (New York, October 2010), where it sold for $218.50. The catalog description[1] noted,
"GREAT BRITAIN. George III, 1760-1820. Last Coinage. Shilling, 1816. MS-63 (NGC). Shilling, 1816. Old head r. Rv. Arms in Garter. MS-63 (NGC)."
The type was struck 1816-20 and features the bust of George III, by then subject to the regency of his son the Prince of Wales.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 5.655 g, 0.925 fine silver, .168 troy oz ASW.
Catalog reference: S.3790, KM 666.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Stack's.
- 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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