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| 裏面の説明 | Central crowned numeral '3' denoting the denomination, with the date 1792 flanking the numeral below the crown. The thin, wire-like style of the numeral is characteristic of the 'Wire Money' issue. The peripheral legend MAG·BRI·FR·ET·HIB·REX encircles the design, reading clockwise, with all elements contained within a plain field. |
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| 鋳造所 | Royal Mint, London |
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The 1792 Maundy threepence falls within a peculiar gap in British monetary history — regular silver coinage had effectively ceased circulating by this point, with the Royal Mint producing almost no currency silver between the 1780s and the great recoinage of 1816. What kept the threepence alive was the annual Maundy ceremony, in which the sovereign distributed small silver to the poor on Holy Thursday, a tradition stretching back centuries that gave these diminutive pieces their only consistent reason for production.
The "thin numerals" variety is distinguished from contemporary issues by the date's typeface — a detail that matters to series collectors working through Spink attributions.