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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1120056, member: 19463&quot;]Maundy coins are given out on Maundy Thursday or the day before Good Friday.&nbsp; The link to the age of the monarch is not the date but the practice for some of the time of the amount of money given out to selected recipients equaling the age of the monarch.&nbsp; There is dispute on why it is called Maundy with some linking it to the New Commission (mandatum) from Jesus given on that day to be good to the least of the people while some point out that the money was first given to beggars (<i>maund) </i>by the king on his way to church services on that day so the demand was not from Jesus but from the beggars.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In the beginning the poor were given food but that led to gifts of money which led to coining of special money that could be sold to collectors for more than the equal number of regular coins.&nbsp; Details:</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Maundy" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Maundy" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Maundy</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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