This 1932 British year set contains the complete eight coins all issued and dated from the year, namely: halfcrown, florin, shilling, sixpence, threepence (these five all struck in 50% silver) penny, halfpenny and Farthing.

This would make a wonderful and original gift for someone born or married in 1932 as 2024 will see their 92nd Birthday!

The year that was 1932...

• In India, Mahatma Gandhi campaigns for better treatment of the 'untouchable' caste • The kingdoms of Saudi Arabia and Iraq become independent • On 15 June, Chaco war over disputed border territory between Bolivia and Paraquay begins (ends June 1935) • In the United States, unemployment reaches 14,000,000 (Great Depression) • In October, Sir Oswald Mosley founds the British Union of Fascists • On 8 November, the Democratic candidate Franklin Delano Roosevelt wins the US presidential election by a landslide against incumbent Herbert Hoover, so becoming the 32nd president. He begins to introduce the New Deal, which aims to tackle the social effects of the Great Depression • In a Cambridge laboratory, British scientists John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton split an atom of lithium • The first autobahn, or motorway, is opened between Cologne and Bonn in Germany • British writer Aldous Huxley's visionary novel about the future, Brave New World, is published • Johnny Weissmuller, Olympic gold medal swimmer-turned-actor, stars in the first Tarzan 'talkie' •