10 Pence - Elizabeth II 5th portrait M - Mackintosh (2018–2019)

One row for each year the 10 Pence - Elizabeth II 5th portrait – M - Mackintosh 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 – M - Mackintosh

The 2018 10 Pence - Elizabeth II – M - Mackintosh 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 Mackintosh behind the letter ‘M’ with rain falling.

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 Mackintosh 10p is the letter M in the A to Z series of 26 circulating 10p coins that the Royal Mint revealed on 1 March 2018 as The Great British Coin Hunt: Quintessentially British A to Z. It is one of the series' jokes at the nation's own expense. The Royal Mint introduces it by asking what could be more British than complaining about the weather.

The coat is named after Charles Macintosh, whom the Royal Mint calls a Glaswegian chemist. Its page explains that the cloth was made by sandwiching a layer of naphtha and rubber between two layers of fabric, and that early versions had a habit of melting in hot sun before the process was improved. The Mint uses both spellings, Macintosh for the inventor and Mackintosh for the coin.

The Royal Mint's circulating figures show 220,000 of the M coin dated 2018 and 84,000 dated 2019, which adds up to 304,000.

A Mackintosh raincoat stands behind a large letter M, with rain falling. The weather the Mint jokes about is part of the design.

The Royal Mint gives the reverse designer as The Royal Mint Team, while Coin Hunter attributes the design to P J Lynch. On the obverse is the fifth portrait of Elizabeth II, by Jody Clark, with the denomination and date. The coin has a milled edge and is struck in nickel-plated steel, the 10p alloy since January 2012.

Collecting notes

The date is on the obverse and is the only difference between the two issues. At 84,000 the 2019 coin has less than half the 2018 figure, but that is true of most letters: 21 of the 26 share the 84,000 figure in the Royal Mint's data, so the M coin is a typical member of the series for both dates.

The Royal Mint sold the design uncirculated as well, and as a sterling silver proof dated 2018 of the same weight and diameter. Other letters include N, NHS and U, Union Flag.