Great Britain 1863 half penny

Stack's Bowers May 2025 Collectors Choice Online Auction, lot 75099

This specimen was lot 75099 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, May 2025), where it sold for $105. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. 1/2 Penny, 1863. London Mint. Victoria. PCGS MS-64 Red Brown." Large 3 and small 3 varieties exist for this date, which is common. KM 748.1 (1860 only) has a beaded border while KM 748.2 (shown here) has a toothed border.

Recorded mintage: 15,948,800 plus proofs.

Specification: 5.67 g, bronze, 25.4 mm diameter, plain edge.

Catalog reference: S-3956; KM-748.2.

Sources:

• Bressett, Kenneth E., A Guide Book of English Coins, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 2nd Ed., Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing, 1962.
• Freeman, Michael J., The Bronze Coinage of Great Britain, Rev. Ed., London: Spink & Son, 2006.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• Lobel, Richard, Mark Davidson, Allan Hailstone and Eleni Calligas, Coincraft's Standard Catalogue of English and UK Coins, 1066 to Date, London: Coincraft, 1995.
• Peck, C. Wilson, English Copper, Tin and Bronze Coins in the British Museum, 1558-1958, 2nd Ed., London: Oxford University Press, 1970.
• 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, May 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction: Ancient & World Coins, featuring selections from the Sydney F. Martin Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.

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