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Heritage Sports Series: Gold 2-Coin .999 Fine Silver Set (No Tax)
Heritage Sports Series: Gold 2-Coin .999 Fine Silver Set (No Tax)
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Heritage Sports Series: Gold 2-Coin .999 Fine Silver Set (No Tax)
From PAMP, the Heritage Sports series celebrates the history of some of the world's most popular sports. Each set contains two half-ounce coins, composed of .999 silver and shaped like the equipment associated with the sport.
Taking a ball and smashing it as far as you can with a stick is a fairly obvious amusement when you're an old-timey peasant living in the country, so the precise origins of golf are murky. The oldest recognizably golf-like game in the historical record comes from the Netherlands, where a Middle Dutch manuscript from 1261 mentions a ball game called "kolf" (meaning "stick" or "club"). A doodle in the margins of a roughly-contemporary manuscript depicts some sort of golf-like stick-and-ball game that is probably kolf, and scattered references continue through the Late Middle Ages.
Modern golf (with 18 holes and the goal of the lowest number of strokes) appears, of course, in Scotland. The first references to it date to the 15th century, when Parliament banned and unbanned it several times for being "distracting" and "unprofitable." Rules solidified in the middle 18th-century, when the Edinburgh-based Company of Gentlemen Golfers wrote down a ruleset that became the basis for all subsequent codes, but it wasn't until the Victorian period that interest in the sport began to spread beyond Scotland. The introduction of railways boosted tourism to Scotland, and curious visitors took the game and spread it throughout the British Empire. By the 1880s, golf clubs were popping up in Ireland, Canada, the United States, Australia, and South Africa. Today, golf is a massive multi-billion-dollar industry -- so much for "unprofitable," 15th-century Scottish Parliament!
From PAMP, the Heritage Sports series celebrates the history of some of the world's most popular sports. Each set contains two half-ounce coins, composed of .999 silver and shaped like the equipment associated with the sport.
Taking a ball and smashing it as far as you can with a stick is a fairly obvious amusement when you're an old-timey peasant living in the country, so the precise origins of golf are murky. The oldest recognizably golf-like game in the historical record comes from the Netherlands, where a Middle Dutch manuscript from 1261 mentions a ball game called "kolf" (meaning "stick" or "club"). A doodle in the margins of a roughly-contemporary manuscript depicts some sort of golf-like stick-and-ball game that is probably kolf, and scattered references continue through the Late Middle Ages.
Modern golf (with 18 holes and the goal of the lowest number of strokes) appears, of course, in Scotland. The first references to it date to the 15th century, when Parliament banned and unbanned it several times for being "distracting" and "unprofitable." Rules solidified in the middle 18th-century, when the Edinburgh-based Company of Gentlemen Golfers wrote down a ruleset that became the basis for all subsequent codes, but it wasn't until the Victorian period that interest in the sport began to spread beyond Scotland. The introduction of railways boosted tourism to Scotland, and curious visitors took the game and spread it throughout the British Empire. By the 1880s, golf clubs were popping up in Ireland, Canada, the United States, Australia, and South Africa. Today, golf is a massive multi-billion-dollar industry -- so much for "unprofitable," 15th-century Scottish Parliament!
