Great Britain 1946 half crown

formerly in the Mountain Groan Collection

This type was struck 1937-46 in substantial numbers and is common today. This type was the last silver half crown issued for circulation; the half crown of 1947-67 was copper-nickel. The reverse design was carried over unchanged from the George V half crown of 1927-36. It was demonetized in 1969, when the pound was decimalized, but by then rising silver prices had driven it out of circulation.

Recorded mintage: 22,725,000 plus a few proofs.

Specification: 14.14 g, 0.500 fine silver, .227 troy oz ASW, 32.3 mm diameter, designed by T. H. Paget and George Krueger-Gray.

Catalog reference: KM 856, S-4080.

Source:

• Bressett, Kenneth E., A Guide Book of English Coins, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 2nd Ed., Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing, 1962.
• Lobel, Richard, Mark Davidson, Allan Hailstone and Eleni Calligas, Coincraft's Standard Catalogue of English and UK Coins, 1066 to Date, London: Coincraft, 1995.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• Rayner, P. Alan, and Maurice Bull, English Silver Coinage from 1649, 6th Ed., London: Spink & Son, 2015.
• Skingley, Philip, ed., Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of England & the United Kingdom, 46th edition, London: Spink & Son, 2011.

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• 1939 half crown
• 1946 farthing
• 1946 brass threepence
• 1946 sixpence
• 1946 shilling, English crest
• 1946 shilling, Scottish crest
• 1946 florin
• South Africa 1946 2-1/2 shillings
• 1947 half crown
• Coins and currency dated 1946
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