View source for Great Britain 1806 half penny

[[Image:Great Britain SB517-72342o.jpg|300px|thumb|from the Stack's Bowers 2017 Collector's Choice sale, lot 72342]]
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This specimen was lot 72342 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Santa Ana, CA, May 2017), where it sold for $188. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. 1/2 Penny, 1806. NGC MS-65 BN. Reverse: No berries. Good strike with glossy brown surfaces and quite attractive." This type of 1806-07 is the only issue of copper pennies between 1799 and 1825. Despite a desperate shortage of small change which permitted the issue of a profusion of counterfeits and private tokens, the mint made little effort to produce copper coins until the 1820's. This half penny was accompanied by a penny ([[Great Britain 1806 penny|KM 663]]) and farthing ([[Great Britain 1806 farthing|KM 661]]). Many varieties of berries exist.

''Recorded mintage:'' unknown but common.

''Specification:'' 9.22 g, copper, 28.7 mm diameter.

''Catalog reference:'' KM-662. 

''[[Bibliography|Source:]]''
* Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, ''Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed.'', Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
* <sup>[1]</sup>Ponterio, Rick, et al., ''The May 2017 Collector's Choice Sale,'' Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2017.
* 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.

''Link to:''
* [[Great Britain 1806 farthing|1806 farthing]]
* [[Great Britain 1806 penny|1806 penny]]
* [[Great Britain 1806 1/3 guinea|1806 third guinea]]
* [[Great Britain 1806 1/2 guinea|1806 half guinea]]
* [[Great Britain 1807 half penny|1807 half penny]]
* [[Coins and currency dated 1806]]
* return to coins of [[Great Britain]]

[[Category:Selections from the Stack's Bowers 2017 Collector's Choice sale]]