Set report · Canada · 50 Cents
King George VI 50 Cents: Who Owns What
How often each King George VI 50 Cents coin actually turns up in a collection, measured by how many of the 125 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 King George VI 50 Cents catalog pages and the full price guide.
| Coin | Mintage | Collectors | % of set collectors | How often collected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-CANone | 192,016 | 23 | 18.4% | Uncommon |
| 1937-CANone (Specimen) | — | 1 | 0.8% | Extremely scarce |
| 1938-CANone | 192,018 | 15 | 12% | Scarce |
| 1938-CANone (Specimen) | — | 3 | 2.4% | Extremely scarce |
| 1939-CANone | 287,976 | 19 | 15.2% | Scarce |
| 1940-CANone | 1,996,566 | 38 | 30.4% | Common |
| 1941-CANone | 1,714,874 | 35 | 28% | Common |
| 1942-CANone | 1,974,165 | 33 | 26.4% | Uncommon |
| 1943-CANone | 3,109,583 | 45 | 36% | Common |
| 1943-CANone (Specimen) | — | 1 | 0.8% | Extremely scarce |
| 1944-CANone | 2,460,205 | 41 | 32.8% | Common |
| 1945-CANone | 1,959,528 | 37 | 29.6% | Common |
| 1946-CANone | — | 27 | 21.6% | Uncommon |
| 1946-CANone (Error) | — | 3 | 2.4% | Extremely scarce |
| 1947-CANone | — | 19 | 15.2% | Scarce |
| 1947-CANone Maple Leaf | — | 14 | 11.2% | Scarce |
| 1947-CANone (Variety) | — | 5 | 4% | Very scarce |
| 1947-CANone Maple Leaf (Variety) | — | 1 | 0.8% | Extremely scarce |
| 1948-CANone | 37,784 | 11 | 8.8% | Very scarce |
| 1949-CANone | 858,991 | 26 | 20.8% | Uncommon |
| 1949-CANone (Error) | — | 4 | 3.2% | Extremely scarce |
| 1950-CANone | 2,384,179 | 43 | 34.4% | Common |
| 1950-CANone (Error) | — | 5 | 4% | Very scarce |
| 1951-CANone | 2,421,730 | 33 | 26.4% | Uncommon |
| 1952-CANone | 2,596,465 | 36 | 28.8% | Common |
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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.