what are some rare british pennies to look for?

hello, id like to increase my penny/halfpenny/farthing collection and id like to know which varieties are rarer than others so i can keep an eye out for them

Working with the non-precious versions (so everything after 1797), there's not too many particularly rare dates. Most dates have hundreds of thousands, if not millions, produced. Anything around or less than about 200k I include below. It was just a list I put together when I considered going on a year hunt, so numbers are a little rough.

Farthings I think are plentiful in all dates.

Halfpenny

1825 (~200k)

1851 (~200k)

1860 (Unknown “rare”)

Penny

1808 (1 - so impossible to get)

1837 (~175k)

1844 (~200k)

1848 (~160k)

1860 (~32k) NOTE: First Victoria portrait only. 1860 second portrait are more common (~500k)

1933 (6 or 7 depending on source)

1950 (~240k)

1951 (~120k)

Within specific varieties of year, afraid I don't know. I'm not that much of a specialist.

Hope that helps a little bit.

1 Penny 1902 Low Tide 

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A Collector

Working with the non-precious versions (so everything after 1797), there's not too many particularly rare dates. Most dates have hundreds of thousands, if not millions, produced. Anything around or less than about 200k I include below. It was just a list I put together when I considered going on a year hunt, so numbers are a little rough.

 

Farthings I think are plentiful in all dates.

 

Halfpenny

1825 (~200k)

1851 (~200k)

1860 (Unknown “rare”)

 

Penny

1808 (1 - so impossible to get)

1837 (~175k)

1844 (~200k)

1848 (~160k)

1860 (~32k) NOTE: First Victoria portrait only. 1860 second portrait are more common (~500k)

1933 (6 or 7 depending on source)

1950 (~240k)

1951 (~120k)

 

Within specific varieties of year, afraid I don't know. I'm not that much of a specialist.

 

Hope that helps a little bit.

thank you, this helped

1954 proof only one known 

yarnmisery

hello, id like to increase my penny/halfpenny/farthing collection and id like to know which varieties are rarer than others so i can keep an eye out for them

Look here:

https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/search/1/?country=GREAT+BRITAIN®ion=All+Regions&denom=Penny&date=&catalogInitials=&catalogNumber=

juliofcampos

yarnmisery

hello, id like to increase my penny/halfpenny/farthing collection and id like to know which varieties are rarer than others so i can keep an eye out for them

Look here:

https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/search/1/?country=GREAT+BRITAIN®ion=All+Regions&denom=Penny&date=&catalogInitials=&catalogNumber=

 

 

thank you for the reply, will check it out

Pennys the rarest is 1933 then 1869 then probably the 1950 + 51, maybe 1919kn there's some more but they're the main ones to look out