Our mounted coin sets make a wonderful gift, each one bringing together the pre-decimal British coins minted in a single year. The coins are securely attached to luxury hammered card, roughly 15cm by 15cm, laid out so every coin can be seen at once.
For anyone old enough to remember them, these coins are instantly familiar. The weight of a half crown. A sixpence hidden in the Christmas pudding. The threepenny bit that bought a bag of sweets on the way home from school. There is a lot of memory in a handful of old coins, which is why these make such thoughtful and well received gifts.
Presented this way, they do not disappear into a drawer. The card can be stood on a shelf or propped on a mantelpiece, so the coins stay in view and the year stays with them. Each one is sleeved in a clear cellophane envelope, so it arrives clean and ready to hand over.
These sets make a lovely birthday gift, with coins minted in the year the recipient was born, though anniversaries and other meaningful dates are just as popular a reason to choose one.
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.
