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Maundy Errors - Part 4

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A 1d obverse brockage -
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2 Off-center fourpences (same date)
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I've enjoyed this series of threads that you've opened, thankyou
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Great error coins Bill; but as others have hinted I don't think they could ever be classed as Maundy coins used for presentation as these are presented by the Queen or King each year, and I cannot see how such errors could ever pass through the system and end up being presented to anyone. I would have think heads would have been removed from bodies in the centuries before if ever such a mistake was made. More likely to be rejects smuggled out of the mint somehow. Unless I am totally wrong and somebody knows different?
Mike.

More info on Maundy money...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Maundy
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Rejects smuggled from the Mint is certainly a possibility.
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as I understand, Queen Victoria resumed the practice of personally presenting the Maundy Money, but for a few hundred years before that, the coins were handed out by a delegate.
I put together a Maundy set of 1820, and researched His Majesty's movements through old newspapers: he spent a month at Brighton, including Easter. The Maundy were reported to have been distributed by a lesser Bishop.
Also, the Maundy were sold, as sets, to collectors. In 1820, apparently, you had to pre-order them, and pay in advance. When they came out, the collectors' would be dispatched. And a few sets wer gifted to staff of the Royal household. So the number minted was a lot more than that strictly necessary for the Maundy ceremony itself.
That said, older ones can be very scarce now.
It took me three years to make my set, and I had to bid quite high at auctions.
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