Obverse: + EDWARD DI GRA REX ANGL Z FRANC, crowned facing bust within tressure of arches, quatrefoils by neck.

Reverse: POSVI DEUM ADIVTOREM MEUM, Long cross pattee with trefoil in each quarter, inner legend CIVITAS LONDON,

Spink: 2000. [London, 1464-70].

Diameter: 27 mm. Weight: 3.0 g

A quality silver groat of Edward IV. Struck c. 1464-70 at the Tower Mint in London. Beautifully toned with an idealised facing portrait of the monarch, highly evocative of the period. A wonderful little piece of medieval English history. The coin looks to have been straightened at some point.