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This coin, UK KM#813, is listed in the "Maundy Coinage" section but the list of mintages is a combination of Maundy and circulation coinage. The coins themselves are identical in design and are assigned the same KM# but the Maundy coinage is "prooflike" and was usually struck in quantities between 1,000 and 2,000. It is a bit confusing, particularly for those not familiar with this anomaly, if you are trying to find KM#813 in the main catalogue list of circulation coinage. Is there any way to separate the two different types, or perhaps move the listing into the main section but retain the information on the listing about the difference between the two types?
Just because you can't see it ... doesn't mean it isn't there - Anon.
we might merge maundy with normal coinage again. but: it is maundy coinage, since they used that for this purpose. This applies not only to KM#813 but to many other "maundy money" sheets, too!
We have there "Prooflike" entries for maundy sets and normal ones for circulation. yes, it is
irritating. but since we still have the 1,2,3 and 4 pence pieces with these nominal values on them, despite
demonetization of such it shows we might need that section still separated?
I will concentrate on UK coinage first. The team might decide soon about the future of this section.
Just wait. Most people don't own these coins anyway.
In this case, KM#813, we have high mintage figures for circulation strikes. It was one of the two coin sheets
I had to move to "maundy" because they were missing in line. And: creating a double sheet of this one
just because of the maundy set entries (while the circulation strikes coin sheet would be in the
"Pound sterling - 1158-1971" section) would irritate much more. people would start to enter their
circulation strikes into the maundy fields for sure!
Between 1845 and 1927 the Maundy threepence was virtually identical to the threepence struck for general circulation, so they will be very difficult to tell apart. Krause & Mishler refer to the Maundy coinage as "prooflike" and other documentation refers to the only discernable difference being the "depth of strike", so if you say that your coin has very good fine detail it is possible that you have a Maundy coin. Also, since the Maundy coinage was issued in sets as gifts to the people from the monarch, then in theory they would be in extremely fine or uncirculated condition. Having said that, since these royal gifts were often made to the poor then you can imagine that a good many of the Maundy coins would have entered into general circulation. In summary, I think the only way one would be able to tell the difference between the two types is to have one of each in equal grading next to each other and compare the detail.
Just because you can't see it ... doesn't mean it isn't there - Anon.
