Set report · Australia · Half Penny and Penny
Queen Elizabeth II Penny: Who Owns What
How often each Queen Elizabeth II Penny coin actually turns up in a collection, measured by how many of the 192 collectors of this set have one. Coins are graded from Common to Extremely scarce against the set's most-owned coin — a measure of collecting frequency, not of how many survive.
Hardest to find in real collections
The five least-owned coins of the set — ownership counts are collector-reported.
…and the ones everybody has
Full set: ownership & rarity, coin by coin
Values by grade for each of these live on the Queen Elizabeth II Penny catalog pages and the full price guide.
| Coin | Mintage | Collectors | % of set collectors | How often collected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | — | 84 | 43.8% | Common |
| 1953 (Variety) | — | 7 | 3.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 1954 (Proof) | — | 4 | 2.1% | Extremely scarce |
| 1955 | — | 68 | 35.4% | Uncommon |
| 1955 (Proof) | — | 1 | 0.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1955 (Variety) | — | 6 | 3.1% | Extremely scarce |
| 1956 | — | 70 | 36.5% | Uncommon |
| 1956 (Proof) | — | 1 | 0.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1956 (Variety) | — | 5 | 2.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 1957 | — | 65 | 33.9% | Uncommon |
| 1957 (Variety) | — | 3 | 1.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 1958 | — | 60 | 31.3% | Uncommon |
| 1958 (Variety) | — | 6 | 3.1% | Extremely scarce |
| 1959 | — | 59 | 30.7% | Uncommon |
| 1959 (Variety) | — | 5 | 2.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 1960 | — | 58 | 30.2% | Uncommon |
| 1961 | — | 77 | 40.1% | Uncommon |
| 1961 (Proof) | — | 1 | 0.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1962 | — | 75 | 39.1% | Uncommon |
| 1962 (Error) | — | 3 | 1.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 1963 | — | 70 | 36.5% | Uncommon |
| 1964 | — | 107 | 55.7% | Common |
| 1964 (Proof) | — | 1 | 0.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1964 (Variety) | — | 11 | 5.7% | Extremely scarce |
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Based on the share of this set's collectors who own each coin — how often it turns up in a collection, not how many survive. Not the Sheldon rarity scale.
About these numbers
Ownership counts come from the same live per-coin counters shown across the LuckyCoin catalog; set-level collector counts come from the annual full-collection scan behind The State of Coin Collecting 2026. Counts are collector-reported and aggregate-only. Scarcity tiers come from 100 × (1 − owners ÷ owners of the set's most-owned coin): Common under 25, Uncommon 25–49, Scarce 50–74, Very scarce 75–89, Extremely scarce 90+. This reflects how often a coin is collected, not its surviving population — it is not the Sheldon rarity scale. CC BY 4.0 with attribution.