2 Pence - George V 1st Maundy issue (1911–1920)

One row for each year the 2 Pence - George V 1st Maundy issue was struck. Prices are medians of verified sold listings matched to that year from the listing: circulated is worn condition up to Extremely Fine, uncirculated is About Uncirculated or better. A count in brackets means fewer than three sales behind the figure; a grey figure marked "type" is the median across every year, shown where that year has no sale of its own yet. Most types have been searched year by year only since October 2026, so later years are still filling in. Use the grade table below for a price by condition across all years.

About the 1911 2 Pence - George V 1st Maundy issue

The 1911 2 Pence - George V 1st Maundy issue is a collector 2 pence coin issued from 1911 to 1920 in the Maundy Money series, struck in 92.5% silver. It weighs 0.94g and measures 13mm across. Reverse design: Crowned denomination dividing date within oak wreath.

A mintage of 6,007 is recorded for one date of this type; figures for each year are not held.

Common questions

History and design

Maundy money is struck each year for the Royal Maundy, the Maundy Thursday service at which the sovereign gives purses of coins to elderly men and women, as many of each as the monarch's age. The Royal Mint Museum explains that the white purse holds silver Maundy coins totalling the same number of pence, made up from coins of one, two, three and four pence.

This first George V twopence was struck from 1911 to 1920 in sterling silver. Coinstrail's catalogue gives 1,635 for 1911, then between 1,465 and 1,880 each year, about 16,000 over the ten dates. Tony Clayton notes that after 1908 sets were issued only to recipients and those involved in the ceremony, so George V sets are much scarcer than Victorian ones. The Royal Mint Museum records that rising silver prices led to the Silver Coinage Act 1920 and the switch to .500 silver, and Clayton places the Maundy change between the 1920 and 1921 sets.

The obverse carries Bertram Mackennal's bare head of George V facing left. The Royal Mint Museum notes that Mackennal, an Australian artist, was chosen at a time when the Mint bought designs in and relied on the reducing machine to make the dies.

The reverse is a crowned figure 2 with the date, inside an oak wreath. Wikipedia credits the wreathed design to Jean Baptiste Merlen in 1822; in 1888 Leonard Charles Wyon altered the crown and the shape of the 2 on the twopence. It adds that George VI later refused a 1950 proposal to return to the older 2.

Collecting notes

The 1911 date was also struck in proof, and Clayton lists both a 1911 proof twopence and a 1911 proof Maundy set. Maundy coins were not made to circulate, and Clayton notes it is unusual to find them in worse than very fine condition. He also advises that the four coins of a year are not equally easy to find singly.

The coin is still legal tender, deemed since 1971 to be 2p. From 1921 the twopence continued in .500 silver as the second George V Maundy twopence.