Great Britain, William IV, 4 Pence Groat 1836, Large Head, Rare!, PCGS MS 62

William IV (1830-37)

Great Britain, William IV, 4 Pence Groat 1836, Large Head, Rare!, PCGS MS 62

Name: Great Britain, William IV, 4 Pence Groat 1836, Large Head, Rare!, PCGS MS 62
SKU: Z140
Price: 249 EUR
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Obverse: Uncrowned portrait of King William IV right, legend around.

Lettering (Latin): GULIELMUS IIII D:G: BRITANNIAR REX F:D:

Engraver: William Wyon

Reverse: Seated figure of Britannia right, trident in left hand, shield bearing the Union flag in the right, denomination around, date in exergue.

Lettering (English): FOUR PENCE 1836

Engraver: William Wyon

Edge: Reeded

The pictures provided are of the actual coin for sale.

Guaranteed genuine.

You can verify PCGS certification numbers: 84662311

€ 249

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Country	Great Britain
Ruler	William IV (1830-37)
Face Value	4 Pence Groat
Year of issue	1836
Metal	Silver
Fineness	925
Catalogue #	KM# 723; SPINK 3837; ESC unlisted; Davies unlisted
Weight, g.	1,89
Diameter, mm.	16,3
Our code	Z140
Die Axis	↑↑
Additional info	Obv.3: Large head - Rare!, unlisted in Davies & ESC

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History

The groat had been dead for decades. Not entirely – it survived in the narrow, ceremonial form of Maundy money, distributed by the monarch to the poor on Holy Thursday – but as a coin of everyday commerce it had quietly vanished from British life. For most of the 18th century, small silver simply wasn’t worth the trouble of minting. And then London grew.

By the 1830s, the capital was transforming at a pace that bewildered its own inhabitants. The railways were coming. The streets teemed with hackney carriages, omnibuses, market traders, and factory workers – a vast new urban economy generating millions of small daily transactions that the existing coinage handled awkwardly. Between the penny and the sixpence there was an uncomfortable gap and nowhere was felt more keenly than at the end of a short cab ride. The standard fare was fourpence. Passengers typically tendered a sixpence. Cab drivers typically pocketed the change.

Into this gap stepped Joseph Hume, Member of Parliament for Weymouth, who lobbied persistently for the reintroduction of a fourpenny coin. The Royal Mint concurred, and on the 3rd of February 1836, a royal proclamation declared the new groat legal tender. The cab drivers were furious. They had grown comfortable with the twopenny gratuity that the absence of a fourpenny coin had effectively made compulsory, and they took their revenge in language – dubbing the unwanted new coin a “joey”, after Hume himself, as a term of contempt. The nickname stuck long after the grievance was forgotten.

The 1836 groat bears the bare-headed portrait of King William IV, engraved by the masterful William Wyon, and on the reverse – in a departure from earlier fourpenny pieces – a seated Britannia holding a trident, shield at her side. William IV had come to the throne in 1830, a bluff former naval officer known as the Sailor King, refreshingly unpretentious after the excesses of his brother George IV. He had just two years left to live when this coin entered circulation. The following year he died, and the crown passed to an eighteen-year-old girl named Victoria.

The 1836 groat is therefore a coin of the threshold – the last reign before the longest, a small silver disc produced in the final months before Britain entered the Victorian age and began its extraordinary transformation into the most powerful empire the world had ever seen.