Our birth year coin sets bring together genuine pre-decimal British coins, all minted in the same year. Coins spent their working lives in pockets, tills and gas meters, and there is a lot to notice once one is in your hand: the weight of a half crown, the wear on a sixpence that saw plenty of use, the sharper detail on one that barely circulated.
Every set comes with an organza bag for safe keeping, allowing you to pick up and handle the coins whenever you like. That makes them a favourite with collectors, who use them to fill in the years they are missing or to add a complete year in one go. Anyone with an interest in British coinage will find plenty to study across the pre-decimal period.
They make a lovely gift as well. A birthday, with the coins minted in the year the recipient was born, or an anniversary or other special year worth celebrating. If the gift is meant to go on display, our mounted coin sets and framed year sets present the same coins ready to show.
You may notice that some sets contain different coins to others. This is because the Royal Mint did not strike every denomination in every year, so what is included changes as you move through the period. Each listing sets out exactly what is in it.
