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Heritage Sports Series: Ice Hockey 2-Coin .999 Fine Silver Set (No Tax)
Heritage Sports Series: Ice Hockey 2-Coin .999 Fine Silver Set (No Tax)
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Heritage Sports Series: Ice Hockey 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 fine silver, shaped like the equipment associated with the sport.
Hockey is generally believed to be the descendant of Europe's many stick-and-ball games and lacrosse -- North America's oldest sport, played for generations by Indigenous Nations across modern Canada and the United States. Soldiers and colonial immigrants, bored in the winter and looking for ways to stay fit, traded these games with the native population and with each other, and, slowly, eventually, the result was hockey. By the 1830s, references to "hockey on ice" were appearing in the journals of British Army officers, which is around the same time that icebound sports played with sticks and skates started popping up in art.
Organized ice hockey appeared in Montreal in 1875, when the first organized game was played at Victoria Skating Rink between two nine-player teams. This was also the debut of the puck, which was safer for spectators than an unwieldy ball that could go flying into the crowd. Apparently, it was startlingly violent. The Daily British Whig reported that, "Shins and heads were battered, benches smashed and the lady spectators fled in confusion." Over time, the number of teams grew and rules became standardized (presumably to protect shins, heads, and ladies from confusion), and, by 1893, there were nearly a hundred hockey teams in Montreal alone. Truly, hockey had become Canada's sport.
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 fine silver, shaped like the equipment associated with the sport.
Hockey is generally believed to be the descendant of Europe's many stick-and-ball games and lacrosse -- North America's oldest sport, played for generations by Indigenous Nations across modern Canada and the United States. Soldiers and colonial immigrants, bored in the winter and looking for ways to stay fit, traded these games with the native population and with each other, and, slowly, eventually, the result was hockey. By the 1830s, references to "hockey on ice" were appearing in the journals of British Army officers, which is around the same time that icebound sports played with sticks and skates started popping up in art.
Organized ice hockey appeared in Montreal in 1875, when the first organized game was played at Victoria Skating Rink between two nine-player teams. This was also the debut of the puck, which was safer for spectators than an unwieldy ball that could go flying into the crowd. Apparently, it was startlingly violent. The Daily British Whig reported that, "Shins and heads were battered, benches smashed and the lady spectators fled in confusion." Over time, the number of teams grew and rules became standardized (presumably to protect shins, heads, and ladies from confusion), and, by 1893, there were nearly a hundred hockey teams in Montreal alone. Truly, hockey had become Canada's sport.
