10 Pence - Elizabeth II 5th portrait F - Fish and Chips (2018–2019)

One row for each year the 10 Pence - Elizabeth II 5th portrait – F - Fish and Chips 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 – F - Fish and Chips

The 2018 10 Pence - Elizabeth II – F - Fish and Chips 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: The letter 'F' over an image of fish and chips.

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 Royal Mint gave the letter F to fish and chips when it issued its A to Z 10p coins in 2018. The series of 26 designs, The Great British Coin Hunt: Quintessentially British A to Z, was revealed on 1 March 2018, and Coin World's launch report opened with the point that people would soon be able to buy fish and chips with a 10p that celebrated them.

The Royal Mint's page for the coin calls the dish a national institution: freshly cooked, salted and doused with vinegar, wrapped in newspaper and eaten outdoors. It ties the meal to seaside holidays and pay-day treats, and says Churchill called fish and chips the good companions. Change Checker adds that the dish first appeared in Great Britain in the 1860s and that by 1930 there were more than 35,000 fish and chip shops in the UK.

The Mint's circulating figures are 220,000 dated 2018 and 84,000 dated 2019: 304,000 altogether.

Change Checker describes the reverse as fish around a large letter F, surrounded by chips.

The reverse is credited to The Royal Mint Team. The obverse carries Jody Clark's portrait of Elizabeth II, the fifth used on UK coins, with the denomination and date. The coin is nickel-plated steel, the 10p alloy since January 2012, with a milled edge.

Collecting notes

First establish the year, which is on the obverse. The Royal Mint struck 220,000 of the F coin dated 2018 and 84,000 dated 2019 with no change to the reverse. Both figures are the common ones for the series in their year. The lower 2019 mintages belong to Q, R, W, Y and Z.

Because the Mint recorded no ordinary circulating 10p for 2018 or 2019, sorting 10p coins by date is a quick way to find A to Z pieces.

The coin was also sold by the Royal Mint in uncirculated condition, individually and in complete sets, and as a sterling silver proof dated 2018 with the same design and dimensions. The other food coins among the early letters are E, English Breakfast and I, Ice Cream.