Set report · United Kingdom · Half Penny and Penny
King George VI Half Penny: Who Owns What
How often each King George VI Half Penny coin actually turns up in a collection, measured by how many of the 164 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 Penny catalog pages and the full price guide.
| Coin | Mintage | Collectors | % of set collectors | How often collected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | — | 44 | 26.8% | Uncommon |
| 1938 | — | 53 | 32.3% | Uncommon |
| 1939 | — | 52 | 31.7% | Uncommon |
| 1940 | — | 40 | 24.4% | Uncommon |
| 1940 (Variety) | — | 2 | 1.2% | Extremely scarce |
| 1941 | — | 58 | 35.4% | Common |
| 1941 (Proof) | — | 1 | 0.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 1942 | — | 54 | 32.9% | Uncommon |
| 1943 | — | 67 | 40.9% | Common |
| 1944 | — | 76 | 46.3% | Common |
| 1944 (Proof) | — | 1 | 0.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 1945 | — | 64 | 39% | Common |
| 1946 | — | 37 | 22.6% | Scarce |
| 1947 | — | 37 | 22.6% | Scarce |
| 1948 | — | 43 | 26.2% | Uncommon |
| 1949 | — | 39 | 23.8% | Uncommon |
| 1950 | — | 44 | 26.8% | Uncommon |
| 1951 | — | 35 | 21.3% | Scarce |
| 1952 | — | 49 | 29.9% | Uncommon |
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- Very scarce
- Extremely scarce
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.