Set report · United Kingdom · Queen Elizabeth II Decimal Coinage
Queen Elizabeth II Half Penny: Who Owns What
How often each Queen Elizabeth II Half Penny coin actually turns up in a collection, measured by how many of the 209 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 Half Penny catalog pages and the full price guide.
| Coin | Mintage | Collectors | % of set collectors | How often collected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | — | 169 | 80.9% | Common |
| 1971 (Proof) | — | 6 | 2.9% | Extremely scarce |
| 1972 (Proof) | — | 1 | 0.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1973 | — | 79 | 37.8% | Scarce |
| 1973 (Proof) | — | 2 | 1% | Extremely scarce |
| 1974 | — | 79 | 37.8% | Scarce |
| 1974 (Proof) | — | 2 | 1% | Extremely scarce |
| 1975 | — | 59 | 28.2% | Scarce |
| 1975 (Proof) | — | 2 | 1% | Extremely scarce |
| 1976 | — | 69 | 33% | Scarce |
| 1976 (Proof) | — | 3 | 1.4% | Extremely scarce |
| 1977 | — | 48 | 23% | Scarce |
| 1977 (Proof) | — | 2 | 1% | Extremely scarce |
| 1978 | — | 41 | 19.6% | Very scarce |
| 1978 (Proof) | — | 2 | 1% | Extremely scarce |
| 1979 | — | 60 | 28.7% | Scarce |
| 1979 (Proof) | — | 2 | 1% | Extremely scarce |
| 1980 | — | 62 | 29.7% | Scarce |
| 1980 (Proof) | — | 2 | 1% | Extremely scarce |
| 1981 | — | 30 | 14.4% | Very scarce |
| 1981 (Proof) | — | 2 | 1% | Extremely scarce |
| 1982 | — | 58 | 27.8% | Scarce |
| 1982 (Proof) | — | 2 | 1% | Extremely scarce |
| 1983 | — | 28 | 13.4% | Very scarce |
| 1983 (Proof) | — | 2 | 1% | Extremely scarce |
| 1984 | — | 33 | 15.8% | Very scarce |
| 1984 (Proof) | — | 2 | 1% | 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.