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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;oz_in_ohio, post: 3373768, member: 89534&quot;]***************************************************</p><p><br /></p><p>Ok ...As you are not under british rule , you may not know the meaning of the word Maundy...I have a bit of information about some of the items in your lot of coins there... On the 2nd line, you have a threepence , 2nd from the end...On the bottom line , you have 2d second in from the start....These were known as Maundy money.... They were given out to the poor by Queen Victoria on easter time....All are made of 92.5% sterling silver and we in australia used to place one of them in a pudding and the person at the dinner who got the coin, got the present...Normally it was a voucher from a place like Macys.&nbsp; On top of that, from 1910 to 1945, all 3d and 6d coins in australia were made of 92.5% sterling silver and were used...One had to boil them first and then place into a jar before into the food to keep clean...Any coins under 92.5% had nickel and people got sick from it....Just a bit of trivia...OIO[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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