That means when you move the coin, it looks like the leaves are shimmering in the sunlight because of that. It even looks like a bigger, fancier Canadian penny which also had maple leaves on it.

Coin collecting, or numismatics (a term which also encompasses the study of coins), has been a practice for at least 2,000 ...

This Victorian one penny model was a suggested design by Joseph Moore and made in 1844 to replace the heavy coinage then in circulation. The inner part was supposed to be in silver to compensate ...

An 1813 Phoenix Iron Works One Penny Coin. Thomas Edington & Sons built four steam locomotives at their Phoenix Iron Works, Glasgow between 1840 and 1841. The locomotives were commissioned for the ...