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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PaddyB, post: 1735729, member: 40017&quot;]The term &quot;Maundy Money&quot; is used to describe the coins handed out by the monarch to the poor on Maundy Thursday - a practice that goes back centuries. Since the advent of milled coinage, this has settled down to be a set of silver coins consisting of One Penny, Two penny (or Tuppence) Three pence and Four pence. British coin collectors refer to all such just as &quot;Maundy Money&quot; and complete sets of four are the most sought after. </p><p><br /></p><p>To add to the confusion some of the same coins may also have been circulation coinage at the same time, and even when they weren&#039;t, it was possible as a collector to apply to the Bank of England for a set for collecting purposes, so the actual numbers produced far exceed those actually handed out by the monarch. (There are many other confusions to this topic - I do not have the time to write a book on it!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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