10 Pence - Elizabeth II 5th portrait C - Cricket (2018–2019)

One row for each year the 10 Pence - Elizabeth II 5th portrait – C - Cricket was struck. Prices are medians of verified sold listings matched to that year from the listing: circulated is worn condition up to Extremely Fine, uncirculated is About Uncirculated or better. A count in brackets means fewer than three sales behind the figure; a grey figure marked "type" is the median across every year, shown where that year has no sale of its own yet. Most types have been searched year by year only since October 2026, so later years are still filling in. Use the grade table below for a price by condition across all years.

About the 2018 10 Pence - Elizabeth II – C - Cricket

The 2018 10 Pence - Elizabeth II – C - Cricket is a circulating 10 pence coin issued from 2018 to 2019, struck in nickel plated steel. It weighs 6.5g and measures 24.5mm across. Reverse design: A man playing cricket alongside the letter ‘C’.

Mintage figures are recorded for 2 years between 2018 and 2019, 304,000 coins in all. 2019 is the scarcest date, with 84,000 struck.

Common questions

History and design

Cricket took the letter C when the Royal Mint put an alphabet of British themes on the 10p in 2018. The 26 coins, titled The Great British Coin Hunt: Quintessentially British A to Z, were revealed on 1 March 2018 and began entering circulation that month.

According to Coin World's report of the launch, the subjects were informed by a 2017 poll of UK residents, and cricket came out as the favourite sport with 48 per cent of votes against 29 per cent for football. The Royal Mint's page for the coin calls cricket the Great British pastime, says it became the national sport in the 18th century and spread around the world in the 19th and 20th, and dates its first formal laws to the Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord's in 1835.

The Mint's circulating figures are 220,000 dated 2018 and 84,000 dated 2019, a total of 304,000. For scale, it lists 33,300,000 ordinary 10p coins dated 2017.

The reverse shows a batsman striking a ball, set beside a large letter C. Change Checker describes it as a man playing cricket alongside the letter. The denomination and date are on the obverse, with the fifth portrait of Elizabeth II by Jody Clark.

The Royal Mint and Coin Hunter both credit the reverse to The Royal Mint Team. The coin is nickel-plated steel and has a milled edge.

Collecting notes

The two dates are different coins as far as scarcity goes. The Royal Mint struck 220,000 dated 2018 and 84,000 dated 2019, and the reverse does not change, so look at the obverse. In 2019 the C coin matches most of the alphabet at 84,000; only Q, R, W, Y and Z were struck in smaller numbers that year.

No ordinary 10p was recorded for circulation in 2018 or 2019, so a 10p of either date found in change will be one of the 26 letters. The Royal Mint sold uncirculated examples as well, singly and in complete sets of 26.

A sterling silver proof dated 2018 has the same design and the same weight and diameter as the circulating piece. Next in the alphabet are B, James Bond and D, Double Decker Bus.