Set report · United Kingdom · Half Sovereign and Sovereign
Queen Elizabeth II Sovereign: Who Owns What
How often each Queen Elizabeth II Sovereign coin actually turns up in a collection, measured by how many of the 62 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 Sovereign catalog pages and the full price guide.
| Coin | Mintage | Collectors | % of set collectors | How often collected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | — | 37 | 59.7% | Common |
| 1957 (Proof) | — | 2 | 3.2% | Extremely scarce |
| 1958 | — | 20 | 32.3% | Uncommon |
| 1959 | — | 12 | 19.4% | Scarce |
| 1960 | — | 13 | 21% | Scarce |
| 1961 | — | 13 | 21% | Scarce |
| 1962 | — | 14 | 22.6% | Scarce |
| 1963 | — | 14 | 22.6% | Scarce |
| 1964 | — | 19 | 30.6% | Uncommon |
| 1965 | — | 15 | 24.2% | Scarce |
| 1966 | — | 13 | 21% | Scarce |
| 1966 (Proof) | — | 1 | 1.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 1967 | — | 28 | 45.2% | Common |
| 1967 (Proof) | — | 1 | 1.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 1968 | — | 32 | 51.6% | Common |
| 1968 (Proof) | — | 1 | 1.6% | 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.