1944 Threepence George VI Silver Coin

Add a 1944 UK silver Threepence to your collection, produced for Colonial use as the last widely available silver 3d issued for circulation.

These compact coins are struck in .500 (50%) silver and feature Humphrey Paget's uncrowned portrait of King George VI on the obverse, with a Tudor rose and shield design on the reverse: a style used only during his reign and designed by George Kruger Gray.

• Minted in London during the Second World War, in the same year as the D-Day Landings
• Part of a low annual mintage of 2,005,553 produced at the Royal Mint alongside the 1944 Brass Threepence

S 4085, Bull 4298, ESC 2158