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4 Pence - Victoria
| Issuer | Royal Mint (London) |
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| Year | 1891-1901 |
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| Engraver(s) | Leonard Charles Wyon |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | BRITISH GUIANA AND WEST INDIES FOUR PENCE 1891 |
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The British fourpence — the Maundy fourpence specifically — occupied a peculiar administrative niche by the late Victorian period: it circulated freely in British Guiana, where a chronic shortage of small change made the coin genuinely useful in everyday trade, long after it had become little more than a ceremonial oddity at home. The Royal Mint struck these pieces annually in consistent small quantities, partly to supply the Maundy Thursday distribution and partly to meet colonial demand.
Dies for this denomination were among the most carefully prepared in the Mint's production run, given the small working surface and the expectation of ceremonial quality.