British Coins
Coin collecting the world over is a growing and indeed very interesting hobby. So much can be told from the quiet stories revealed through imprinted and stamped metal. This stamped metal becomes monetarily or intrinsically valuable once it becomes “special”—the coin is worth more than the metal it’s made from or holds some honor, for example. The value of the coins are determined by the collector, and can be bought, sold and traded for under-, over- or at face value. The knack of coin collecting, in this case a numismatist’s art, gives people a fixed way to view history and culture in the palm of the hand. Indeed, the past reaches to the present to tell tales of what life was really like.
Just like in America (the US), the numismatist’s trade has changed over the years, and also had humble beginnings. In the US, it used to be the case that only the wealthy had enough funds on reserve to actually collect money that could otherwise be spent. As far back as the Romans and Caesars, coin collecting has been a privilege of the rich to show off and share the stories of their collection. Likewise, the royalty of Britain would collect coins that had some meaning into the changing culture that took place so quickly around them. Perhaps before coin collecting in the US became popular, the UK considered their coins to be valuable relics of the past, whether the coinage was monetarily worth anything or not. Perhaps, too, before popularity begat assigning value, British coin collecting history shows that collecting images of royalty on coins was a favored past time for rich and poor alike. An allegiance was formed and felt in the coins.
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When collectors collect coins in the UK, it’s not for personal pride but more for country pride. This is not to say that US coin collecting is not as important or holds no patriotism. This is to say, however, that coin collecting in the UK started off differently than its US counterpart. The coin collectors together form a historical perspective in the UK, collecting coins for the mere act of holding onto a concrete piece of history. In the US, it was much for the same reasons, illustrating a love for holding onto something that chronicles the best and worst of times.
British coin collecting, additionally, presently uses differing categories for collecting coins. Though we do have pennies in the US, the British have a separation for their pennies: new pence and ancient pre-decimal pennies. The first “new pence” category is talking about the coins made circa 1971 to 1981; the “new pence” label was used to distinguish it from older coins. Nowadays, as you may know, the British pence now have a number value assigned to it, using a number before the pence moniker. The “new pence” coins are hard to find these days, but there are other special coins in circulation for collectors, ones that aren’t really used in spending but just for collecting.
The names of the UK coins are often hard to keep up with—2 halfpence is now 1 penny; shillings have turned to pounds; pounds have turned to symbols: £1 = one pound, for example—but the art of collecting remains the same. Today, British coin collecting is just as important and popular as American coin collecting. Though the biographies of coin collecting diverge ever so slightly, the idea of gathering for notable reasons remains the same.
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