3 Pence - George V 1st issue incl. Maundy (1911–1920)

One row for each year the 3 Pence - George V 1st issue – incl. Maundy 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; years with no sales yet fill in as sales are recorded. 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 3 Pence - George V 1st issue – incl. Maundy

The 1911 3 Pence - George V 1st issue – incl. Maundy is a collector 3 pence coin issued from 1911 to 1920 in the Maundy Money series, struck in 92.5% silver. It weighs 1.41g and measures 16mm across. Reverse design: Crowned denomination dividing date within oak wreath.

Mintage figures are recorded for 10 years between 1911 and 1920, 128,768,700 coins in all. 1915 is the scarcest date, with 5,450,600 struck.

Common questions

History and design

George V's first threepence continued the small sterling silver coin that had circulated since 1845 alongside the Maundy threepence. The Royal Mint Museum notes that the threepence had earlier survived mainly as part of the Maundy money, and that its role changed when it was issued in large numbers for circulation, helped by the inconvenient size of the copper coins.

Coin Hunter records 5,841,084 currency threepences for 1911 and 128,499,236 over 1911 to 1920. Output rose sharply in wartime: from 5,450,617 in 1915, the lowest date, to 18,555,201 in 1916 and 21,662,490 in 1917. The Royal Mint Museum explains that the disappearance of gold during the war drove a huge increase in demand for silver coin. Coinstrail adds between 982 and 1,991 Maundy threepences a year, struck for the white purses at the Royal Maundy.

The type ended with the Silver Coinage Act 1920, which cut British silver from .925 to .500.

The obverse is Bertram Mackennal's bare head of George V facing left, his initials BM on the truncation, with the legend GEORGIVS V D G BRITT OMN REX F D IND IMP. The reverse is a crowned figure 3 with the date in an oak wreath. Wikipedia attributes the wreathed design to Jean Baptiste Merlen in 1822, with the crown altered in 1888 by Leonard Charles Wyon.

Varieties and errors

The circulating and Maundy coins are of the same design. Tony Clayton and Wikipedia say they can usually be told apart only in the best condition, by the sharper strike of the Maundy pieces. Clayton also lists a 1911 proof. No mint errors are documented.

Collecting notes

Clayton notes that Maundy coins are rarely found in worse than very fine condition, so a worn example is almost certainly a currency piece. Check 1920 threepences carefully: Wikipedia records that only some were struck in sterling, the rest in the new .500 alloy, which is catalogued as the second George V threepence. Wikipedia says all silver threepences from 1870 were revalued at three new pence in 1971.