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

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There are currently no known major 1967 doubled die pennies that have such drastic doubling — but there are still some really cool (and collectible!) 1967 doubled die pennies out there which show minor doubling. Most of these are rather obscure doubling errors that can be seen in the lettering and date. Member states of the British Commonwealth: Australia, British West Africa, Fiji, Jamaica, New Zealand, Nigeria... The decimal halfpenny was introduced in 1971 and had a value of 2.5 new pence, and so a new design was also introduced with a much smaller diameter and weight. Decimal halfpennies were only in circulation until 1884 when they were demonetised and withdrawn from circulation. What About The 1970 Pre-Decimal Halfpenny? As mentioned earlier, the U.S. Mint produced a special kind of collectible coin product in 1967 known as the Special Mint Set (SMS).

The 1967 Lincoln cent is definitely worth looking for in your spare change. I’m going to tell you why. Ready to find out how much your 1967 pennies are worth?… NOTE: A major coin shortage caused the United States Mint to make several changes to the U.S. coin system beginning in 1965. Among the changes was the permanent elimination of circulating 90% silver coinage and the temporary removal of mintmarks from all U.S. coins. Also proof sets and uncirculated sets were placed on production hiatus from 1965 through 1967 and replaced during that time by Special Mint Sets (SMS). 1967 Penny Value Weight 9.2–9.8grams, diameter 29 millimetres. Obverse shows a right-facing bust of the king, with the inscription GEORGIVS III D G REX date, reverse shows a slightly different left-facing seated Britannia holding a spray and spear, with the inscription BRITANNIA. 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. The obverse inscription read GVLIELMVS ET MARIA, while the reverse reads BRITANNIA (with the date beneath Britannia in 1694). The 1689–1692 coins have the edge inscription NVMMORVM FAMVLVS with the date.These special 1967 Lincoln pennies also contain copper, but they’re more valuable for their special finish — a coin type that was produced in limited quantities. The U.S. Mint made just 1,863,344 SMS sets in 1967 — and thus only that many 1967 SMS pennies. King Richard III's (1483–1485) short reign only produced halfpennies from the London mint. The obverse inscription reads RICARD DI GRA REX, which distinguishes the coins from those of Richard II. Coins issued during the reign of Edward VII feature his likeness and bear the inscription EDWARDVS VII DEI GRA BRITT OMN REX FID DEF IND IMP. Similarly, those issued during the reign of George V feature his likeness and bear the inscription GEORGIVS V DEI GRA BRITT OMN REX FID DEF IND IMP. Values in the table above are expressed in GBP. They are based on evaluations by Numista users and sales realized on Internet platforms. They serve as an indication only; they are not intended to be relied upon for buying, selling or exchanging. Numista does not buy or sell coins or banknotes.

In this case, the 1967 halfpenny had a mintage of 146,491,000, which is a very large amount. Another thing to consider is that the pre-decimal halfpenny ceased to be legal tender on 31 July 1969. The new two pence coin, introduced when decimalisation of British coinage took effect in 1971, is essentially the same size as the halfpenny coin as it had most recently existed. The reverse design of the halfpenny between the start of King George Vi’s reign in 1937 until it ceased to be legal tender in 1967 is perhaps one of the most iconic designs of the 20th century. Considering the very cheap price of a 1967 halfpenny, it serves as a great addition to any collection as the last circulating pre-decimal halfpenny.The halfpennies of King James II (1685–1688) were made of tin with a small square plug of copper in the centre. The corrosion properties of tin mean that very few coins survive in a good state of preservation, not helped by the electrochemical reaction between copper and tin. The objects of using tin were to produce coins at a profit while at the same time producing a coin which would be difficult to counterfeit, and at the same time to assist the ailing tin-mining industry. The coins weighed between 10.5 and 11.6grams, with a diameter of 28–30 millimetres. The obverse showed the right-facing effigy of the king with the inscription IACOBVS SECVNDVS– James the Second – while the reverse shows the same Britannia as before. Unusually, the date appears not on the reverse but on the edge of the coin, which has the inscription NVMMORVM FAMVLVS date– an ancillary coinage. The coins were produced in 1685, 1686, and 1687.

By the reign of King Henry VIII, the halfpenny was becoming a coin of lesser importance, and less effort was spent on producing good-quality impressions on the coin blanks, with the result that many of the inscriptions are difficult to read. The coins of his first and second coinage (1509–1526 and 1526–1544) look similar to those of his father, Henry VII, although the obverse inscriptions were changed between the two coinages, from HENRIC DI GRA REX ANGL to H DG ROSA SIE SPIA– Henry by the grace of God a rose without a thorn ( Henricus Dei gratia rosa sine spina). Christopher Ironside designed all six new denominations for decimalisation for which he was awarded the OBE in 1971. See also

Before Decimal Day in 1971, sterling used the Carolingian monetary system, under which the largest unit was a pound divided into 20 shillings, each of 12 pence. Each penny was further divided into 4 farthings, thus a pound contained 480 halfpennies and a shilling contained 24 halfpennies. all years). Weight 9.2–10.8grams, diameter 29–30 millimetres. Obverse shows a right-facing bust of the king, with the inscription GEORGIVS III REX, reverse shows a left-facing seated Britannia holding a spray and spear, with the inscription BRITANNIA and the date in the exergue beneath Britannia. (The king's bust has a fuller face in 1774 and 1775). The pre-decimal halfpenny had a value of 1/480 of a pound sterling, as one penny was worth 1/12 of a shilling to which there were 20 to the pound. Specification a b "Professor John Wells, University College London". PhD General Linguistics, UCL Psychology & Language Sciences

The halfpennies of Queen Victoria's long reign (1837–1901) can be basically divided into the copper issue of 1838–1860, where the coins were 9.1–9.5grams in weight and 28 millimetres in diameter, and which were very similar to the halfpennies of her two predecessors (with the obvious substitution of REG for REX on the reverse), and the bronze issue of 1860–1901 (which itself is split between 1894 and 1895 into coins displaying the "young head" and the "old head" of the Queen). The bronze coins weighed 5.5–5.8grams and were 25 millimetres in diameter. The bronze coins also featured the denomination HALF PENNY on the reverse for the first time, with the date in the exergue beneath Britannia. The inscription on the obverse of the "young head" coins reads VICTORIA D G BRITT REG F D, while on the "old head" it is VICTORIA DEI GRA BRITT REGINA FID DEF IND IMP. Some 1874–1876 and 1881–1882 halfpennies have an "H" mintmark underneath the date, indicating that they were produced at the Heaton mint in Birmingham. Halfpennies were produced in all years of Victoria's reign except 1837, 1840, 1842, 1849 and 1850.

When King James I ascended the English throne in 1603, for the first couple of years halfpennies were produced in the same style as Elizabeth I's sixth issue, though with a thistle or lis mintmark. From 1604 onwards, there was a completely different style of coin with a rose on the obverse and a thistle on the reverse. The William III halfpenny appears with various distinct types of engraving of the king's head, Britannia, and the inscriptions, with the quality getting worse as the reign wore on. The coins were copper, weighing 8.9 to 11.5grams, with a diameter of 28–29 millimetres. The king's effigy on the obverse faced right, with the inscription GVLIELMVS TERTIVS– William the Third. Britannia appears on the reverse with the inscription BRITANNIA and the date normally in the exergue beneath Britannia. Coins were produced each year between 1695 and 1701. Yet, for a period of more than a decade in modern history, the farthing was not Great Britain’s smallest denomination. Rather, it was the halfpenny, or so was the case when the last farthing rolled off the presses at the Royal Mint in 1956, to be demonetized New Year’s Day in 1961. This left the halfpenny, a coin often linguistically slurred to “ha’penny,” to be the nation’s smallest-denomination coin in production until 1967 as the pre-decimal era neared its close in Great Britain.