Great Britain 1889 3 pence

Stack's Bowers October 2021 Collector's Choice sale, lot 71083

This specimen was lot 71083 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, October 2021), where it sold for $360. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. 3 Pence, 1889. London Mint. Victoria. NGC MS-67. Pop: 1, none graded finer by NGC. A gorgeous little Gem with frosty, original surfaces and electric blue toning in the peripheries." By Victoria's reign, the silver penny, tuppence and groat were obsolete as circulating coins and were issued only for the Maundy sets. The silver threepence continued in circulation until after World War Two.

Recorded mintage: 4,591,000 plus 4,488 for the Maundy sets.

Specification: 1.41 g, 0.917 fine silver.

Catalog reference: S-3931; KM-758.

Source:

• Bressett, Kenneth E., A Guide Book of English Coins, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 2nd Ed., Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing, 1962.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• Skingley, Philip, ed., Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of England & the United Kingdom, 46th edition, London: Spink & Son, 2011.
• 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.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The October 2021 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.

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• 1888 threepence
• 1889 half penny
• 1889 penny
• 1889 sixpence
• 1889 shilling, small bust
• 1889 shilling, large bust
• 1889 double florin
• 1889 crown
• 1889 sovereign
• 1890 Maundy threepence
• Coins and currency dated 1889