| VICTORIA SILVER PENNY 1838-1901 |
| The Victoria silver penny is the smallest of the Victorian coinage. Silver pennies were not in circulation in the Victorian era but were still minted for a tradition known as Maundy Money, where the Monarch gave poor people in a parish a silver four pence (groat), a silver threepence, a silver twopence and a silver penny. Traditionally the number of poor people given these sets during a maundy ceremony was equal to the same years as the sovereign's life . 1838-1901 Silver, 0.5 grams, 11mm Diameter. |
| Victoria Silver Penny "Young Head" 1838-1887 |
| Victoria Silver Penny "Old Head" 1893-1901 |
| Victoria Silver Penny "Bun Head" 1888-1892 |
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