Coppers to Crowns

Collection Bronze Penny

BP1944a

Bronze Penny, 1944

Type
BP Bronze Penny
Year
1944
Mint
Royal Mint, ordinary issue
Variety
a
Mintage
42,600,000 struck
In the collection
1 example, best at UNC Uncirculated
Monarch
George VI
Diameter
31 mm
Weight
9.4 g
Metal
Bronze (Copper 97%,Tin 0.5%,Zinc 2.5%)
Reverse
Medal (↑↑)

The mintage is the striking's, not this variety's — the varieties were never counted separately. An issue may also have been struck more than once, so another variety of BP1944a may belong to a different striking from this one.

Obverse inscription
GEORGIVS VI D: G: BR: OMN: REX F: D: IND: IMP.
Reverse inscription
ONE PENNY, Date
CC2000
G61D-050 1 1
Peck
P2409 - B
Freeman
F229 2 C
All Coin Values
AC1944 a -

Condition & value

Held at Uncirculated. Figures above are catalogue values for a better example.

  1. VG Very Good Below the best grade held
  2. F Fine Below the best grade held
  3. F+ Fine+ Below the best grade held
  4. VF Very Fine Below the best grade held
  5. VF+ Very Fine+ Below the best grade held
  6. EF Extremely Fine Below the best grade held
  7. EF+ Extremely Fine+ Below the best grade held
  8. UNC Uncirculated Held £8.00
  9. BU Brilliant Uncirculated not catalogued
  10. FDC Fleur de Coin not catalogued

Catalogue figures from CY2026.

The example held

UNC Uncirculated

No obverse photograph yet

Obverse

Artificially darkened

No reverse photograph yet

Reverse

No description recorded.