Rare Queen Birthday Maundy Coins

A Complete Set of United Kingdom Coins - including the Rare Maundy Coins are now being issued by the British Royal Mint. These are all in Silver Proof Quality – and feature a chance by coin collectors to grab the rarely issued Maundy Coins.

If any coins can be described as personal to the Queen herself, it must be the Maundy coins that she herself distributes on Maundy Thursday.

Maundy Thursday is the Thursday of Holy Week (the Thursday before Easter). It was the day on which Jesus celebrated the Passover with his disciples, sharing a meal with them which we call the Last Supper.

The Maundy Thursday ceremony involves the distribution of Maundy Money to deserving senior citizens (one man and one woman for each year of the sovereign's age), usually chosen for having done service to their community. They receive ceremonial red and white purses which contain coins made especially for the occasion. The white purse contains one coin for each year of the monarch's reign. The red purse contains money in place of other gifts that used to be given to the poor.

The British Royal Mint asked that a small number - struck in silver Proof quality - be made available for their collectors especially to celebrate the Queen’s eightieth birthday and the Queen kindly gave her consent.

This set will make a rare celebratory set for a rare occasion. In Proof quality, they take pride of place alongside the Silver Proof Queen’s 80th Birthday Crown, also struck in sterling .925 silver and - for only the second time in the Queen’s long reign - all eight circulating coins of the realm.

• Coins of the Royal Maundy
• The Queen’s Birthday Crown
• The eight coins of the realm
  

All struck in sterling silver to exacting Proof quality, in a plush black leather presentation case and with a very colorful booklet and Certificate of Authenticity.

Only 8,000 Collections have been authorised - 1000 for each decade of the Queen’s life.

This is a chance to get some of those coins so rarely available, the Rare Queen Birthday Maundy Coins!