Maundy coins
TheRaven
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I was looking around on line and stumbled on some of these coins.
Are they heavily collected?
Seem extremely interesting to me. Hard to find?
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The earlier ones are easier to find, frankly less demand and the people that received them have all passed on. More recent examples say 2000 onwards are fairly challenging and a bit pricey.
Interesting. So these coins are given to older people from what I can tell. So as you go back in time they are a bit easier to get. How about pricing on alot of these?
Pre 1907 ( I think) had mintages of 5-9000, so pretty easy to find. Many do hover around 1100 minted. For some reason the 2010 and beyond sets are crazy expensive, even though the mintages are on par with earlier issues. It’s fun to put together a monarch type set (one Set of each ruler), and they are pretty easy to find. Atlas numismatics has a bunch, as does northeast coin.
The pre-1907 issues do get common, but not so much as a set but as individual pieces that got parted out from sets. Post 2010 as noted in @3stars post are not easy to get. They do not get into the secondary market until either the recipient gives them to someone else, sells them, or passes away and lets the heirs dispose of them. I like the late date examples because they still use the original Mary Gillick young head of Queen Elizabeth on them, and are minted in sterling silver and.. are equated in new pence now - an up-valuation which is rare in coinage.
I have one Maundy coin:
Britain Maundy Fourpence 1937
Silver, 16 mm, 1.88 gm
I like to think of it as a modern-day "groat".
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I have always been fond of maundy's but I only have a 1882 set.
So everything flipped on its head with new stuff being pricey and older but not to old being more reasonable.
But it makes sense, I would think these coins if your family received would be something to keep in the family.
Back before 1907 you could order a set from the royal mint directly
Maundy coinage has an interesting history.GEM early sets are not easy. There was a time when NGC graded these in a single multi-coin holder. I still have sets in these types of holders that I submitted probably 15 years ago... Perhaps longer. Not sure if NGC still does this and not if PCGS ever did
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Good Info
I have a collection of threepence (including maundy) coins. For the 20th century coins, I decided to collect the two different reverses from 1927 onward until 1944. I'm about 80% done and those last few dates have been very tough to get at a reasonable price.
If I had to do it again, I would have focused on victorian maundy fourpence/groat singles (also called oddments). There are some excellent BU coins with wonderful patina that are sitting there BIN on ebay for $40. Also, if you decide to collect maundy, don't forget to check out the .uk version of ebay as well. I've found some of my unfindable coins going that route.
I would stay away from the 2d or 1d coins. They are way too small (in my opinion) to appreciate outside of taking a pic and looking at it on a screen.
That is good info. thanks
I guess it all depends on what one calls old.
Here in America many have a tendency to call anything pre WWII as old.
In England most things are not old unless they are pre Victorian
As a collector of English coins I find post George IV and Pre QEII pretty affordable I have a hard time finding affordable pieces before that.