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Wedding Sixpence Coin

Dated 1960 - 1967
For Luck & Prosperity on Your Wedding Day

 Circulated- Good Condition
Silver Color - May have Some Gold Toning (Age)
(None of the sixpence issued during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1952-1967 have any silver content)   
CARD FRONT:
Wedding Sixpence

Something Old,
Something New,
Something Borrowed,
Something Blue...
And a Lucky Sixpence for your Shoe.

Card Back-info   

*Something Old: represents the link back to the bride's family and her old life.
*Something New: signifies the couple beginning a new life together as well as good fortune and success.
*Something Borrowed: reminds the bride that family and friends will always be there. It also passes on good luck.
*Something Blue: symbolizes fidelity, love, loyalty and purity.
*And a Lucky Sixpence for Your Shoe: this is a good luck charm that signifies love, wealth and good luck within the couples married life together.  
 
 Silver FOIL CONGRATULATIONS LABEL    
 Attaches to Card or Envelope 
   
 Card In Protective Clear Plastic Sleeve ... 
 
Includes: Genuine British Sixpence with Floral Information / Presentation  Post Card.
* 4 1/4" in. x 5 1/2" in.  Post card size-Includes area for Personal       Written Message-in plastic protective Sleeve.  
*  Silver FOIL CONGRATULATIONS LABEL 
* Sixpence can be removed from card then replaced for Scrapbook.
* Long lasting Memory of your Special Day . 

Please Note: Coin in Photo may have different date - You will receive Coin dated between 1960-1967 

A centuries old English tradition states that a bride would have good luck all during her married life if she wore a Sixpence during the wedding ceremony . . . 

The sixpence is an English coin that was minted beginning in 1558 and continued until 1967. Sixpence are no longer minted in England and are becoming rare. 

Formerly used in England and Ireland. The sixpence has found its way into popular culture.

 
According to tradition, during the early 1600's the Lord of the Manor presented a sixpence to the bride as a wedding gift.   
During the 1700's The sixpence was given to the bride from her father and placed in her left shoe. He did this to wish her all the blessings a father can give to his daughter.
It was to symbolize good health for the couple as well as great wealth. Most important is was to ensure his daughter happiness. It is then typically pass down from generation to generation in a family.
Toward the end of the seventeenth century, it also became the custom for the bride's parents to give the sixpence as a dowry gift to the groom 
Today the Wedding Sixpence is given to the bride from many sources. It is a popular bridal shower gift, a lovely gift from the bride's father, and is also a keepsake and family heirloom handed down from mother to daughter or father to daughter. 
Today brides throughout the British Isles, the U.S. and other countries world wide, still place a sixpence in their left shoe for good luck. 

 

Family Traditions.
A bridal sixpence can be placed in the wedding album after the wedding and kept intact to be passed down for daughters and/or daughters-in-law to wear on their own special wedding day.

 

Special Dates
Many brides choose a sixpence minted in there year birth or that of a parent or grandparent's birth, wedding anniversary or some other important family occasion as a special tribute to that Friend or Family Member. 

 Front: Image of Queen Elizabeth ll / Queen Elizabeth II has reigned longer than any other British monarch other than Queen Victoria. She was very involved in the marriage of her grandson Prince William to Kate Middleton, who had the customary sixpence coin in her left shoe on her wedding day. 

 Back: Date & thistle / The thistle is the national flower of Scotland. 

 According to legend in the 1200's the Danes from Norway attempted to invade Scotland. Hiding under the cover of darkness their raid upon sleeping defenders was stopped when a barefoot raider stepped on a thistle and howled out in pain, alerting the defenders who drove the Danes away.  The back of the last sixpence features a garland of roses, thistle, shamrock (three leaf clover), and leek. The words "Fid Def" are also on the back of the sixpence. This is Latin for fidei desfensor, or defender of the faith.

Lucky Sixpence ! A Treasure to be saved for future generations

Genuine British Sixpence * Over 50 + (Fifty) Years in Age !

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