10 Pence - Elizabeth II 5th portrait E - English Breakfast (2018–2019)

One row for each year the 10 Pence - Elizabeth II 5th portrait – E - English Breakfast 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 – E - English Breakfast

The 2018 10 Pence - Elizabeth II – E - English Breakfast 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 traditional English breakfast alongside the letter ‘E’.

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

The fifth coin in the Royal Mint's A to Z 10p alphabet marks the full English breakfast. It was one of 26 ten pence designs revealed on 1 March 2018 under the title The Great British Coin Hunt: Quintessentially British A to Z, all of them released into general circulation.

The Royal Mint's page for the coin describes the meal, also called a fry up, by reference to the English Breakfast Society: bacon, eggs, sausage, black pudding, baked beans, grilled tomato, fried bread and toast. It dates the tradition to the Victorian era, when two meals a day was the norm and breakfast was a leisurely social occasion for the landed gentry. Change Checker says the coin celebrates one of the nation's best loved meals.

The Mint's circulating mintage figures are 220,000 for 2018 and 84,000 for 2019, making 304,000. That compares with 33,300,000 standard 10p coins dated 2017.

The reverse depicts a traditional English breakfast alongside a large letter E. It is one of three food subjects in the first ten letters, with Fish and Chips and Ice Cream.

The Royal Mint credits the reverse to The Royal Mint Team. The obverse shows the fifth portrait of Elizabeth II, by Jody Clark, with the denomination and date around it. The coin is struck in nickel-plated steel and the edge is milled.

Collecting notes

Two dates exist with one design, so check the obverse. The Royal Mint struck 220,000 dated 2018 and 84,000 dated 2019. In 2019 the E coin sits with the bulk of the series at 84,000, above Q, R, W, Y and Z.

The coins went into circulation from March 2018, and Coin World reported that they were also available at selected post offices. The Royal Mint sold uncirculated examples too, singly and in sets of all 26 letters.

There is also a sterling silver proof dated 2018, identical in design, weight and diameter. The letters either side are D, Double Decker Bus and F, Fish and Chips.