Great Britain 1946 shilling KM-854

from the Cruzer Collection

formerly in the Mountain Groan Collection

After Scotland was merged with England by the Act of Union of 1707, Scottish symbols and badges disappeared from British coinage. Deference to local sentiment led the mint to struck separate designs for Scotland and England on the reverse of the shilling. This issue of 1937 was the first year this change was implemented and it was maintained until the shilling was retired in 1970. This was the last year silver was used for the shilling.

Recorded mintage: 24,565,000.

Specification: 5.66 g, 0.500 fine silver, 23.55 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: S.4083; KM-854.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• 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.
• 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.

Link to:

• 1937 shilling, Scottish crest
• 1939 shilling, English crest
• 1946 farthing
• 1946 brass threepence
• 1946 sixpence
• New Zealand 1946 shilling
• South Africa 1946 shilling
• 1946 shilling, English crest
• 1946 florin
• 1946 half crown
• 1947 shilling, English reverse
• 1947 shilling, Scottish reverse
• Coins and currency dated 1946
• return to coins of Great Britain