Great Britain 1940 penny

from the Stonecat Collection

This type was struck 1937-48 for Great Britain. The issues of 1949-52 deleted "IND IMP" from the king's title.

Recorded mintage: 42 ,284, 400 plus proofs.

Specification: 9.45 g, bronze, 30.8 mm diameter, designed by Thomas Humphrey Paget.

Catalog reference: KM 845, S-4114.

Source:

• Bressett, Kenneth E., A Guide Book of English Coins, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 2nd Ed., Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing, 1962.
• Freeman, Michael J., The Bronze Coinage of Great Britain, Rev. Ed., London: Spink & Son, 2006.
• Peck, C. Wilson, English Copper, Tin and Bronze Coins in the British Museum, 1558-1958, 2nd Ed., London: Oxford University Press, 1970.
• Lobel, Richard, Mark Davidson, Allan Hailstone and Eleni Calligas, Coincraft's Standard Catalogue of English and UK Coins, 1066 to Date, London: Coincraft, 1995.
• Skingley, Philip, ed., Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of England & the United Kingdom, 46th edition, London: Spink & Son, 2011.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.

Link to:

• 1939 penny
• 1939 shilling, English crest
• 1939 half crown
• 1940 sixpence
• 1941 half penny
• 1945 penny
• Coins and currency dated 1940