Royal Mint Logo  Your basket 0 items  Charles Dickens’ ‘A
Christmas Carol’  A Christmas Carol  No story evokes the magic
of a Victorian Christmas better than ‘A Christmas Carol’.
Probably the best-known of Charles Dickens’ works, this well-
loved tale with money and coins as a central theme carries the
joyous message that Christmas is a time for giving and thinking
of others.  As we celebrate the 200th Anniversary of Dickens’
birth in 2012, his famous story has never been more popular. ‘A
Christmas Carol’ has been translated into dozens of different
languages, adapted for stage and screen, and turned into an
opera, ballet and Broadway musical.   Bah humbug! The central
character Ebenezer Scrooge has entered our culture as a symbol
of meanness. In the opening scene of the Disney 3-D film,
Scrooge leans into a coffin and pockets the coins covering the
eyes of the corpse, muttering, ‘Tuppence is Tuppence’.  Shunned
by his family and friends and despised by his business
associates, ‘A Christmas Carol’ tells how Sc