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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3021590, member: 112&quot;]It depends on the year you&#039;re talking about because it&#039;s been done for centuries but tradition was the coins were simply dropped into a leather bag/pouch all jumbled together and handed out. Even today they still are.</p><p><br /></p><p>I collected Maundy sets for a while, always seeking out the boxed sets. I had many of them dating back to Victoria but none preceding her reign. And all boxes from her reign were dated.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I mentioned above these boxed sets were sold by the banks, even back then. And I own a copy of the only book I&#039;ve ever even heard of that was written specifically about Maundy coins, and even in that book the boxed sets are considered to be original issue. They weren&#039;t of course because the Monarch didn&#039;t hand them out that way - only the banks did. But the coins were all original Maundy coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>In today&#039;s world people are making these sets up due to the special interest they hold for collectors. It&#039;s much like it is with modern Proof sets, you can buy the empty boxes, just like you can buy Proof packaging, on ebay. Then people put coins in them and sell them as originals.</p><p><br /></p><p>But of you go to buy any of these you better know what you are doing because these boxes do not always match the coins - boxes from one period are used with coins from an entirely different period - and the people buying them don&#039;t know the difference.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s just like it is with all things in numismatics, there&#039;s a whole lot of stuff you have to know - and very few actually do know it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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