Comments on: Queen Hands Out Maundy Money at St. George’s Chapel https://www.coinnews.net/2019/04/19/queen-hands-out-maundy-money-at-st-georges-chapel/ CoinNews delivers the latest World and US coin news Fri, 19 Apr 2019 17:10:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Seth Riesling https://www.coinnews.net/2019/04/19/queen-hands-out-maundy-money-at-st-georges-chapel/#comment-445051 Fri, 19 Apr 2019 17:10:49 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=71272#comment-445051 Many of the elderly, (mostly retirees living on a tight budget) lucky recipients of these exclusive coins, not available to the public, opt to sell them to coin dealers & collectors for extra spending money. I purchased my birth year Maundy coin set for 1962 about 20 years ago from a coin dealer here in the U.S. who specializes in all coins of the UK. It is such a great tradition of the Christians, especially since the King or Queen is the head of the official church of England – the Anglican Church, also known as the Church of England, which all Royal family members must be a member of by tradition.

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