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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;andyscouse, post: 1222064, member: 27100&quot;]The first UK coin with a date on it was dated 1551, and was a crown (if I recall).</p><p><br /></p><p>The calendar reform of that year was only to do with the misalignment of the seasons with the calendar (too many leap-days had been added since Julius Caesar instituted them, so they changed to have century years be a leap year ONLY if they are divisible by 400, so 1900=normal, 2000=leap, etc), so 10 days were removed in Catholic countries.&nbsp; Protestant ones held out until 1752, when the error was 11 days by that time (so Sep 3 was followed by Sep 15).&nbsp; So date reckoning continued through these dates, just that each of those years was a little shorter than normal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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