Set report · United Kingdom · Half Crown and Crown
King George VI Half Crown: Who Owns What
How often each King George VI Half Crown coin actually turns up in a collection, measured by how many of the 139 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 Half Crown catalog pages and the full price guide.
| Coin | Mintage | Collectors | % of set collectors | How often collected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | — | 12 | 8.6% | Very scarce |
| 1938 | — | 10 | 7.2% | Very scarce |
| 1939 | — | 11 | 7.9% | Very scarce |
| 1940 | — | 16 | 11.5% | Very scarce |
| 1940 (Proof) | — | 1 | 0.7% | Extremely scarce |
| 1941 | — | 14 | 10.1% | Very scarce |
| 1942 | — | 26 | 18.7% | Scarce |
| 1943 | — | 12 | 8.6% | Very scarce |
| 1944 | — | 11 | 7.9% | Very scarce |
| 1945 | — | 13 | 9.4% | Very scarce |
| 1946 | — | 15 | 10.8% | Very scarce |
| 1947 | — | 38 | 27.3% | Uncommon |
| 1948 | — | 67 | 48.2% | Common |
| 1949 | — | 30 | 21.6% | Scarce |
| 1949 (Proof) | — | 1 | 0.7% | Extremely scarce |
| 1950 | — | 41 | 29.5% | Uncommon |
| 1951 | — | 31 | 22.3% | Scarce |
| 1951 (Proof) | — | 1 | 0.7% | 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.