1944 Great British Coin Display Gift Set
This 1944 British year set contains the complete ten coins all issued and dated from the year, namely: halfcrown, florin, Scottish and English shilling, sixpence, silver threepence (these six all struck in 50% silver), brass threepence, penny, halfpenny and farthing.
This would make a wonderful and original gift for someone born in 1944 as 2024 will see their 80th Birthday!
The coins are housed within a display that is held in a quality, wooden, picture frame with glass front, sized 24cm x 19cm. The display and frame are in New/Mint condition and the coins are in Fine (or better) condition.
Note - We don't clean/polish coins as
this actually devalues coinage.
Our manufacturing process includes a precision laser cutting method to create the necessary holes in each display for the required coins to be inserted and held, safely recessed, in the correct position (beware of similar offerings that secure coins by crudely gluing them into position).
The year that was 1944...
• On 4 June, Rome is liberated by Allied troops • On 6 June, the D-Day invasion of German-occupied France by Allied troops begins • On 20 July, a plot by German officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler fails. Eventually about 5,000 people are executed for complicity • On 22 July, an international conference at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to discuss the economics of the postwar world, results in the formation of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) • From 17 to 25 October, during the battle of Leyte Gulf in the Philippines – the greatest naval battle in history – US ships destroy the remaining Japanese fleet. On the last day, the Japanese employ kamikazes – bomb- carrying aircraft flown by suicide pilots • On 25 August, Paris is liberated by Allied troops. General Charles de Gaulle enters the city • On 7 November, Franklin Roosevelt wins a fourth term as US president – the longest run of office for any American president • British actor Laurence Olivier makes a patriotic film version of William Shakespeare's Henry V • French film-maker Marcel Carne makes Les enfants du paradis (The Children of Paradise), a bittersweet historical film •