Great Britain 1965 half penny

from the Stonecat Collection

This type, struck 1954-67 and 1970 for Great Britain, is very common except in proof. It had no place after the decimalization of 1968 and was demonetized.

Recorded mintage: 78,583,000 plus proofs.

Specification: 5.6 g, bronze, 25.4 mm diameter, designed by Mary Gillick and George Krueger-Gray.

Catalog reference: S-4158; KM-896.

Source:

• 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:

• 1964 half penny
• 1965 Maundy penny
• 1965 Maundy tuppence
• 1965 Maundy threepence
• 1965 Maundy groat
• 1965 crown, death of Churchill
• 1965 sovereign
• Coins and currency dated 1965