The finest example graded Professional Coin Grading Service PCGS, 1905-B Straits Settlements 50 cents will be one of the highlight for the online session of the Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio December Macau auction Closes on December 9th.
KM-23; Tan-SSC31. Raised mintmark. Lovely golden yellow toning. Very attractive.
Estimate: $900.00 - $1,200.00
PCGS MS-64 Secure Holder.
A lovely golden toned 1905-B 50 Cents of the Straits Settlements, certified by PCGS as MS-64 in a Secure Holder. This near gem is the finest example graded PCGS, and shares the same grade as the finest graded example at NGC. Rich toning bathes both sides of this minimally abraded coin. Scarce in Mint State, this example displays a full strike. There are two mintmark varieties for the year, one with a raised mintmark and one with an incuse mintmark, and per the NGC Census data, it seems that the incuse variety is found only on the Proof strikes, whereas the raised mintmark is observed only the circulation strikes.
Straits Settlements was established in 1826 as part of the territories controlled by the British East India Company, the Straits Settlements came under direct British control as a crown colony on 1 April 1867. The Straits Settlements consisted of the four individual settlements of Malacca, Dinding, Penang (also known as Prince of Wales Island), Singapore (with Christmas Island and the Cocos Islands). The island of Labuan, off the coast of Borneo, was also incorporated into the colony with effect from 1 January 1907, becoming a separate settlement within it in 1912.
The online session of the December Macau auction closes on Tuesday, December 9th at 7pm Pacific Time (10pm on the east coast of the United States). For those bidders in Asia the local time will be 11am Hong Kong time on the morning of Wednesday, December 10.
Source: Stack’s Bowers
