1933 penny

[Half Penny Jon 0]

Hi everyone,

Could anyone tell me how many 1933 pennys there are of the 'normal' type and how many 'patterns' by Lavrillier there are? Also, how much would they fetch on the open market today (have an educated estimate)?

Half Penny Jon.

[william 0]

There are seven of them I think...

[Half Penny Jon 0]

There are seven of them I think...

Which type?

[william 0]

The normal one I think, but I am not positive!

[Half Penny Jon 0]

When was the last time that one came onto the open market, do you know?

[custard1966 1]

According to collectors' coins there are 7/8 plus perhaps 4 patterns

There's also a uniface - with just the word MODEL on the obverse.

I seem to remember reading somwhere that there are two in private hands - no idea of when one was last sold

One has been stolen (from a church I think).

[Emperor Oli 0]

I thought that they were all given to buildings, like churches and cathedrals, to put in their foundations?!

Ah yes I'm right - there's an informative article on it here.

Plus there's this from another site - "Three of the 1933 pennies were known to have been placed under foundation stones of buildings. One is a building belonging to The University of London in Bloomsbury, two others were under churches in the Ripon diocese in Yorkshire. In September 1970, the Church of St. Cross at Middleton near Leeds was damaged by thieves who managed to remove and steal the 1933 penny buried under its cornerstone. As a precaution, the other church removed its coin, and sold it by auction at Sotheby's on the 24th November 1972.

Over the years we have been coin dealers we have had many people tell us about 1933 pennies they have found. Most of these turn out to be Australian, British West Africa, Jersey, or Irish pennies, and their owners, usually victims of their own wishful thinking, omit to mention the fact that they are not British pennies."

[Master Jmd 80]

i thought they were all burried under a london univecity or cathedral...

[Half Penny Jon 0]

Thanks for the help everyone, it would probably fetch a small fortune if it came onto the open market today!

[Coppers 58]

Was the missing 1933 penny ever recovered?

[Half Penny Jon 0]

I don't think so. Someone out there has got it but they cannot sell it legally.

[Master Jmd 80]

I don't think so. Someone out there has got it but they cannot sell it legally.

in theory they could sell it if they went abroad...

[Emperor Oli 0]

Yet again, you state the obvious! Anyone could sell it here if they had the balls but they don't! Think before posting!

[Master Jmd 80]

Yet again, you state the obvious! Anyone could sell it here if they had the balls but they don't! Think before posting!

me? i just said that in theory you can sell it, HPJ said that it cannot be sold...so i was meerly corecting him...

[Half Penny Jon 0]

No, I said that it could not be sold LEGALLY.