GEORGE IV SILVER PENNY 1820-1830 |
The George IV silver penny is the smallest of the Maundy coinage. Silver pennies were not in circulation but they were still minted for a tradition known as Maundy Money, where the Monarch gave poor people in a parish a silver four pence (groat), a silver threepence, a silver twopence and a silver penny. Traditionally the number of poor people given these sets during a maundy ceremony was equal to the same years as the sovereign's life . 1820-1830 Silver, 0.5 grams, 11mm Diameter. |
George IV Silver Penny 1820-1830 |