Set report · United Kingdom · Shilling
King George VI Shilling: Who Owns What
How often each King George VI Shilling coin actually turns up in a collection, measured by how many of the 218 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 Shilling catalog pages and the full price guide.
| Coin | Mintage | Collectors | % of set collectors | How often collected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | — | 22 | 10.1% | Very scarce |
| 1937 (Proof Variety) | — | 1 | 0.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1937 (Variety) | — | 1 | 0.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1938 | — | 19 | 8.7% | Very scarce |
| 1939 | — | 26 | 11.9% | Very scarce |
| 1939 (Variety) | — | 2 | 0.9% | Extremely scarce |
| 1940 | — | 21 | 9.6% | Very scarce |
| 1940 (Proof Variety) | — | 1 | 0.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1940 (Variety) | — | 1 | 0.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1941 | — | 24 | 11% | Very scarce |
| 1942 | — | 25 | 11.5% | Very scarce |
| 1942 (Proof) | — | 1 | 0.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1942 (Variety) | — | 1 | 0.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1943 | — | 17 | 7.8% | Very scarce |
| 1943 (Variety) | — | 1 | 0.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1944 | — | 19 | 8.7% | Very scarce |
| 1944 (Variety) | — | 3 | 1.4% | Extremely scarce |
| 1945 | — | 18 | 8.3% | Very scarce |
| 1945 (Proof) | — | 1 | 0.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1945 (Proof Variety) | — | 1 | 0.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1945 (Variety) | — | 2 | 0.9% | Extremely scarce |
| 1946 | — | 23 | 10.6% | Very scarce |
| 1946 (Variety) | — | 2 | 0.9% | Extremely scarce |
| 1947 | — | 46 | 21.1% | Scarce |
| 1947 (Variety) | — | 10 | 4.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 1948 | — | 103 | 47.2% | Common |
| 1948 (Proof) | — | 1 | 0.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1948 (Variety) | — | 17 | 7.8% | Very scarce |
| 1949 | — | 55 | 25.2% | Uncommon |
| 1949 (Proof) | — | 1 | 0.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1949 (Variety) | — | 12 | 5.5% | Very scarce |
| 1950 | — | 51 | 23.4% | Scarce |
| 1950 (Variety) | — | 8 | 3.7% | Extremely scarce |
| 1951 | — | 49 | 22.5% | Scarce |
| 1951 (Variety) | — | 10 | 4.6% | 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.