British Predecimal Sixpence Coin (Elizabeth II)

British Predecimal Sixpence (Issued 1953-1967)

The sixpence, worth six old pence, was a small and much-loved coin long associated with good luck, famously baked into Christmas puddings and given as a keepsake. Struck in cupro-nickel in its final decades, it survived decimalisation as the equivalent of two and a half new pence before being withdrawn in 1980.

On the obverse is Mary Gillick’s uncrowned portrait of Queen Elizabeth II facing right with the royal legend and date.

On the reverse is an interlaced design of the national floral emblems — the rose, thistle, shamrock and leek springing from a single crowned stem — above the value “SIXPENCE”, a delicate composition well suited to the small coin.

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