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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1497128, member: 112"]What a lot of people don't understand or realize is that not all Maundy coins were handed out to individuals by the King/Queen. In the Maundy ceremony the Monarch hands each person 2 purses. One, a red purse, contains ordinary coinage which is to take the place of the food and clothing that the Monarch gave the person in the original (old) ceremony. The other purse, a white one, contains the actual Maundy money, the coins minted in sterling silver. And those coins are equal in pence to the age of the Monarch. ie: if the King is 57, the person gets 57 pence worth of Maundy money. Then there are the additional coins (few in number) that are/were given to the banks by the Crown and allowed to be sold to anybody who wanted to buy them. As I said, it was the banks who created the cases and sold the coins in the cases. The case are considered original. I am not sure of exactly what year they started using these cases, (I used to know but have forgotten and am too lazy to try and dig it up), but I do know they do not go all the way back the Charles II in 1660 which was when the Maundy ceremony originated. But you are correct in a way Rusty for there were also some after-market cases made and sold. Some of them are quite modern. It's one of those things where you have to know your cases as well as the coins.[/QUOTE]