Everyone loves to bestow a special gift on a newborn baby. A brand new silver penny, dated 2010, marks the year of Baby’s birth and makes a gift to cherish forever. Ideal as a christening gift too.
The silver penny has been struck to Brilliant Uncirculated standard and is housed in a draw-string pouch which, in turn, is held in a pleasingly illustrated gift card. The card has room to pen your own welcome message to the newborn.
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The reverse design on the 1p coin forms part of the shield of the Royal Arms, a design spread across the range of UK coinage from the 1p to the 50p and which is shown in its entirety on the definitive £1 coin. Designer Matthew Dent chose the Royal Arms, and in particular a shield of the Royal Arms, as the theme for his innovative range of coin designs because, as he points out, ‘heraldry has been the basis of coinage design in Britain for hundreds of years’. The Royal Arms are divided into four parts, England being represented by the three lions passant guardant in the first and fourth quarters, Scotland by the Scottish lion rampant in the second with the harp of Ireland in the third.