Are There Any Coin-Related Holidays?

Coinosaurus

Local radio station switched today to all-holdiay format. Pretty soon Christmas season will last all year (kinda of like how the presidential campaigns now last four years).

To digress, Pistareen was a DJ in his pre-coin dealering days. Ask him to do the "monster truck rally commercial," you will not be disappointed. In order to get the *best* impression, buy something first

Back to the OP. There must be some kind of St. Patrick's holiday, which may or may not be related to the St. Patrick coinage of Mr. Newby.

Lincoln's birthday is tangentially related to the cent, of which there must be 100 billion of these worthless Lincoln tokens.

"National Coin Week" is hardly a holdiay, but the ANA keeps trying.

Can you think of any others?

claychaser

Clipped from Wikipedia:
Royal Maundy ( /ˈmɔ¢°ndi/) is a religious service in the Church of England held on Maundy Thursday, the day before Good Friday. At the service, the British Monarch or a royal official ceremonially distributes small silver coins known as "Maundy money" (legally, "the Queen's Maundy money") as symbolic alms to elderly recipients. The coins are legal tender but do not circulate because of their silver content and numismatic value. A small sum of ordinary money is also given in lieu of gifts of clothing and food that the sovereign once bestowed on Maundy recipients.

Comment:
Some of these coins are really beautiful!

scotty1419

Does 25th anniversary release day count?

keyman64

Re: Coin Related Holidays...

Maybe everyone can take a break/holiday from posting anything ASE Related. I think people need a good holiday from that.

TexasNationals

Spiced cakes w/ raisins and farthings (or other coinage) were common give outs in the first Halloweens.

TwoSides2aCoin

April 15th is a holiday, right ?

coindeuce

December 1 is the Feast Day of Roman Catholic Saint Eligius, the patron saint of numismatics.

coinsarefun

<< <i>December 1 is the Feast Day of Roman Catholic Saint Eligius, the patron saint of numismatics. >>









Ok......I just had to Google it.......Dang it really is


Pretty cool coindeuce!!!!

Justlooking

In some cultures, they bake coins in cakes for New Year's. If you find the coin (without choking), you're guaranteed good luck for the year.

lordmarcovan

<< <i>Local radio station switched today to all-holdiay format. Pretty soon Christmas season will last all year (kinda of like how the presidential campaigns now last four years). >>

Yep. And I hate it. Tacky, tacky, tacky.

Guess it's just a personal peeve o' mine.

Stopped into a big truck stop convenience store on the way home tonight.

There were Christmas wreaths on both doors.

Here's a synopsis of the very brief conversation I had with the bored, tired-looking lady behind the counter.

Me: Hey, how come there are Christmas wreaths on both doors?

Clerk (looking at me like I just hopped out of a spaceship from Planet Retardo): For Christmas decorations. (Said in a "Like, duh?!?" tone.)

Me (returning a tiny bit of her "like, duh?!?" tone): but ... it's November Tenth. It's not even Thanksgiving yet.

Clerk (says nothing, but shrugs as if to say, "Hey, whatever, Dorko- you gonna get outta my face now or do I have to whack you with this giant Slim Jim?)


Coin-related holidays? Dunno, but a few months back at that same truck stop (different clerk), I got five silver quarters in change. That was a bit of a coin-related holiday in my book.

PS- thanx for posting that about St. Eligius. I remembered we had a patron saint, but couldn't remember the name or his feast day.

droopyd

<< <i>Clerk (looking at me like I just hopped out of a spaceship from Planet Retardo): >>



Funny, I don't remember seeing you there.



<< <i>PS- thanx for posting that about St. Eligius. >>



Also the patron saint of goldsmiths, blacksmiths, and other metal workers, as well as the patron saint of cattle and horses and those who work with them. Got a gold coin with a horse or a cow?

And who can forget St. Elsewhere?