I need a gift for someone who likes angels – or soccer, birds, trains, famous African-Americans, ships, anything else — got any ideas?
Most people think to look at silver and bronze medals for their favorite “images” or themes, but some forget to check out coins. If so, you may be missing some great gifts. Almost any image you can think of has been used at one time or another on a circulating coin. Angels were actually a very popular design from 1400 to 1700 and beyond. All kinds of religious images were popular. Check through our offerings in “Le Shoppe Du Plunder” to see some of the ones we have to offer. There was not as much of a separation between “church and state” back then and some coins were actually issued by the church, so to speak, and motifs like angels (or “the Lamb of Christ”) were not uncommon. Interested in soccer? Between the World Cup and the Olympics, many countries (even the USA) have used the image of a soccer player. Interested in baseball? The U.S. issued a Jackie Robinson coin. Liberia has even made a coin to honor Roberto Clemente.
