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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3570798, member: 112&quot;]I have no way of knowing this for certain, but I suspect it may be similar to what has been done with Maundy Money sets for, oh I dunno, 180 years or so. </p><p><br /></p><p>In Great Britain, and I think there&#039;s an actual law that allows it but it may just be a long lived custom, the banks are allowed to assemble, manufacture cases and such, and then sell sets like this to the public. </p><p><br /></p><p>With Maundy Money, cases like these containing the coins are manufactured and the sets sold by the banks - </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://maundymoney.info/imgs/cases/1844.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.michael-coins.co.uk/ms1908case-red2-ms.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The coins are completely genuine, coming from actual Maundy Sets issued by the Crown - but in bags, not cases. The banks then purchase the coins from those who received them, put them in the bank&#039;s cases, and then sell them to whomever wants them.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I suspect what you have may be something similar.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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