Historical Insight:
1964 was the year Harold Wilson became Prime Minister, marking a new political era. This coin circulated in a Britain moving toward the “Swinging Sixties,” with rapid cultural change and modernization.

Collecting Note:
By 1964, the half penny was close to its end as a useful denomination. Collectors today view these coins as symbols of Britain’s pre-decimal system, which was soon swept away by decimalisation in 1971.