6 Pence Edward VIII Pattern Shilling Design

Edward VIII abdicated in December 1936 before any coins bearing his effigy entered circulation, leaving the Royal Mint with approved designs and no monarch to issue them. A small number of pattern pieces were struck in 1937 using the intended shilling obverse design paired with the sixpence denomination — experimental pairings that document the mint's preparation for a reign that never materialized. The Giordano reference places this among a documented but thinly catalogued group of Edward VIII patterns, most of which passed through private hands after the abdication rather than entering any official record.