2003 Baby Coin Set Gift Pack

2003 Baby Gift Set

Ten Coin Uncirculated Set
Contains the eight circulating coins, from the Two Pounds to the Penny, plus an extra Two Pound and Fifty Pence, but please note they do not contain the Crown.
The coins in the baby gift pack are specially examined and selected before packaging. They are all superior to the mass produced coins which are made for circulation because of the absence of bag marks and scratches.
They are also packaged in a colourful attractive and informative folder, a charming way to mark the arrival of a new addition to your family.
As we do not yet have full details of the 2003 packaging, we reproduce below the details from the year 2002 baby pack, which is still available.
The package is contained in an outer sleeve, silver foil blocked on creamy white:-
"2002 UNITED KINGDOM BRILLIANT UNCIRCULATED COIN COLLECTION"
"baby Gift set"
Inside is a card reading:- "baby
Gift set"
"MILLENNIUM"
"A lasting reminder of Baby's momentous first year"
The inside of the card reads, on page 2:-
A New Dawn
Who, at he dawn of the twentieth century and accustomed to the stability of the nineteenth, could have dreamed of the enormous changes to the coinage that would be made in the last hundred years of the millennium? But even before the century was half-way through, gold and silver had disappeared from the circulating coinage and, as the century progressed, the historic £sd system was transformed into a decimal system of 100 new pence to the pound. Since then, coins have continued to become smaller and lighter.
Who, then, given all this and given, too, the giant strides made in the fields of science and technology over the last century, dares to predict what the next will bring? It is, indeed, hard to imagine what further changes lie on the horizon but these coins, milestones in the stream of time, are the first United Kingdom coins to bear a date of the twenty-first century and are minted specially for babies born in the first year of the new millennium.

The third page of the card contains a number of facts and figures from the twentieth century:-
100 Years Ago:-
1900 - Population of the United Kingdom estimated at 41,155,000
16 April 1900 The world's first book of stamps is issued in the United States.
19 July 1900 Opening of the Metropolitan, or Metro, underground train system in Paris.
4 August 1900 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother was born.
August 1900 Arthur Evan's excavations in Crete resulted in the discovery of Minoan Culture.

50 Years Ago:-
1950 Population of the United Kingdom estimated at 50,616,000.
14 April 1950 The first issue of the Eagle comic was launched featuring the "pilot of the future", Dan Dare.
15 August 1950 Princess Elizabeth Alice Louise was born to Her Majesty the Queen.
27 August 1950 The BBC transmits television pictures from overseas for the first time, in a broadcast from Calais.
10 December 1950 Bertrand Russel won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

This Year 2003:-
2002 Population of the United Kingdom estimated at 59,618,000.
Followed by four blank lines to be filled in.

The back page of the card details the coin specifications for the coinage in use in the year 2002.
As we have already listed this on our Year 2000 Coin Specifications page, we will not repeat them here.

The Coin Pack itself has a front cover almost identical to the card, while inside there are pages showing charming pictures of babies, with spaces to record the child's progress through its early years:- "My name is..."
"I was born...
Place...
Date...
Time...
Weight
My memorable firsts:-
Smile...
Tooth...
Crawled...
Sat up...
Stood up...
Walked...
Word...
My Family:-
Grandparents...
Parents...
Brothers and Sisters...
My favourite playmates...

There are also quotations:-
"Times change, and we change with them" - Anon
"From quiet homes and first beginning,
Out to the undiscovered ends,
There's nothing worth the wear of winning,
But laughter and the love of friends."
Hilaire Belloc
"Language was not powerful enough to describe the infant phenomenon" - Charles Dickens.

Naturally, the eight coins are visible from both sides.
A coin set from the year of a child's birth can become a treasured keepsake and lifelong possession.

Prices & Availability

Item	Availability	Price £	Price $	Price €
2003 UK Baby Pack	Sold Out	£17.50	$27.50	€28.95

2003 Beatrix Potter Peter Rabbit 1 Kilo Silver Coin
A great idea for a 2003 birthday, a little more expensive, but still a bargain!

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Index of Year 2003 Coins & Sets