Comments on "King Edward VIII: His Place in Numismatics"

[<k>]

Image copyright: Royal Mint Museum.

The issued version of the halfpenny reverse (for George VI) has no hyphen between HALF and PENNY. Previously I'd thought the Edward VIII patterns of the halfpenny and penny were identical on the reverse to George's.

Apparently the Golden Hind design first appeared on the proposed half crown.

The denomination was shown as HALF-CROWN.


The decision was taken to transfer the design to the half penny.

At first the hyphen was included, but in the final version it was removed.


So HALF-PENNY became HALF PENNY.

But I always prefer to spell it HALFPENNY. 

[Deeman]

Do you remember which auction?

Noonans, lot 794, 7 Oct 03.

[Offa]

New Guinea, British west Africa and east Africa issued coins in Edward VIII name, they are quite common and inexpensive

[Mister T]

Noonans, lot 794, 7 Oct 03.

Thanks - here it is: https://www.noonans.co.uk/auctions/archive/lot-archive/results/91427/?keywords=&discipline=&category=&date=on&date_on=7+October+2003&date_start=&date_end=&lot_no=794

Looks like it was used to strike a uniface pattern too: https://coins.ha.com/itm/great-britain/great-britain-edward-viii-bronze-proof-uniface-reverse-trial-1-2-penny-token-1937-pr65-brown-ngc-/a/61349-22065.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61349-11272023