Refined English Sixpence - Lucky Wedding Coin

For more than a century, brides around the world have prepared their wedding attire according to a famous Victorian dressing rhyme: "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, a lucky sixpence in your shoe." These "lucky copper nickel wedding coins" make wonderful gifts, said to bring "wealth and good fortune" to any wedding. To be placed in a bride's left shoe to ensure marital bliss! Offered right here are early 20th Century British copper nickel sixpence coins referred to in that traditional rhyme, which would make a great gift to a betrothed young bride, or any "young lass" looking forward to her big day!

The SIX PENCE WAS FIRST INTRODUCED UNDER EDWARD VI IN 1547, and the sixpence soon became one of the most popular denominations. During the reign of GEORGE II, it was also known as the TANNER, after SIGISMUND TANNER, who designed some issues. SIXPENCES WERE STRUCK DURING MOST REIGNS and last produced for circulation in 1967. UNDER ELIZABETH I, SIXPENCES WERE BENT AND GIVEN TO LADIES ON THEIR ENGAGEMENT, IF THE GENTLEMAN COULD NOT AFFORD A RING.

The coin being offered here is a GREAT BRITAIN 6 PENCE 1964, which depicts LEEK, ROSE, THISTLE, and SHAMROCK, plus her Majesty the QUEEN. Its DIAMETER is 19.5mm, WEIGHT is 2.8g, and it is made of COPPER NICKEL.

Order these world-famous Victorian "good luck charms" today. These are stock photos of a very similar lightly circulated 1957 sixpence.

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