Coins for collectors - Uncirculated British 1967 Halfpenny / Half Penny Coin / Great Britain

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It seems most people who aren’t seasoned collectors only know about (or are interested in) doubled dies because of a few of the “big” doubled dies out there that are worth hundreds or thousands of dollars apiece! Such pieces include the 1955 doubled die penny and 1972 doubled die penny.

Halfpenny" was colloquially written ha'penny, and " 1 + 1 / 2 d" was spoken as "a penny ha’penny" / ə ˈ p ɛ n i ˈ h eɪ p n i/ or three ha'pence / θ r iː ˈ h eɪ p ən s/. [5] "Halfpenny" is a rare example of a word in the English language that has a silent ' f'. During the short second reign of Henry VI (1470–1471), halfpennies were produced at London and Bristol. The obverse inscription was changed to read HENRIC DI GRA REX. There’s a reason your old 1967 pennies are valuable — and it’s not just because of their age or rarity. The halfpenny of King William IV (1830–1837), produced in 1831, 1834, and 1837, continues the George IV design but with a right-facing bust of the new king, with the inscription GULIELMUS IIII DEI GRATIA date, while the reverse is identical to the previous reigns'.King Richard II (1377–1399) produced all his halfpennies at the London mint. The obverse legend reads RICHARD (or RICARD) REX ANGL– Richard King of England – around a front-facing bust of the king. Doubled die varieties are made by dies that were impressed with its design twice by a hub — which is the master source of the coin design and is responsible for making duplicate dies that usually each strike tens of thousands of coins. Michael, Thomas and Cuhaj, George S. Collecting World Coins: Circulating Issues 1901 – Present. Krause Publications, 2001. Cavendish, Richard. “The Farthing’s Last Day.” History Today. December 12, 2010. Accessed December 10, 2020.

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The mintage for this version was much smaller at just 750,000 which means it is more valuable than the 1967 version. Final Thoughts a b "University College London Dept. of Psychology and Language Sciences, Faculty of Brain Sciences". Archived from the original on 9 November 2012. Professor Emeritus John Christopher Wells' C.V. (via Internet Archive)Halfpennies of the second reign of Edward IV (1471–1483) are much like those of the first reign (only a few months earlier) but they were also produced at Durham ( CIVITAS DERAM). We are indebted to Declan Magee Coins and Numista member Sjoelund for their kind permission to reproduce the images below which list some of the varieties for this series. The pattern coin of Edward VIII and regular issue halfpennies of George VI and Elizabeth II feature a redesigned reverse displaying Sir Francis Drake's ship the Golden Hind.

George VI issue coins feature the inscription GEORGIVS VI D G BR OMN REX F D IND IMP before 1949, and GEORGIVS VI D G BR OMN REX FIDEI DEF thereafter. Unlike the penny, halfpennies were minted throughout the early reign of Elizabeth II, bearing the inscription ELIZABETH II DEI GRA BRITT OMN REGINA F D in 1953, and ELIZABETH II DEI GRATIA REGINA F D thereafter. The ideal of striking coins with a value equal to their production costs was not long maintained, and the coins were given a face value slightly higher than their metal content, so inevitably counterfeits soon began to appear.

It was long considered that the first halfpenny coins were produced in the reign of King Edward I (1272–1307), with earlier requirements for small change being provided by "cut coinage"; that is, pennies cut into halves or quarters, usually along the cross which formed a prominent part of the reverse of the coin. However, in recent years metal detectorists have discovered a few halfpennies of Kings Henry I (1100–1135) and Henry III (1216–1272) – these are extremely rare and very little is known about them; they have all been found in the London area, where they circulated alongside the more common cut coinage, and while it is possible that these coins were patterns or trials, it is clear that they did see circulation. It is possible that there are other coins or issues still to be discovered.