These pages exist because I got interested in the Olympic 50pence issue of coins. At the same time I had the urge to try a bit of php and mysql dynamic page building also I wanted to experiment with pop up images so I made these pages.

Having got interested in the Olympic fifty pence I had a look at some other coins !

All of the sports collection are in circulation, Royal Mint figures appear here. For the Olympic 50p look at the bottom of the page. They refer to the 'High Jump' coin on the circulation page and then call it the 'Athletics' coin on the sports collection pages here. Also they refer to Aquatics as Swimming.

Having done all of this I have ended up being more interested in our current coinage than I intended. I found www.coins-of-the-uk.co.uk particularly helpful, that site gives and acknowledges references so is generally considered to be authoritive.