SILVER GROAT OF HENRY VII, LONDON MINT, 1495-1498.
SILVER GROAT OF HENRY VII, LONDON MINT, 1495-1498.
£160.00
Obverse: +HENRIC DI GRA REX ANGLIE Z FRAN, crowned facing bust within tressure of arches.
Reverse: POSUI DEUM ADIVTOE MEU, Long cross pattee with trefoil in each quarter, inner legend CIVITAS LONDON.
Spink: 2198A. [London, 1495-1498].
Diameter: 27 mm. Weight: 2.8 g.
A quality silver groat of Henry VII. Struck c. 1495-1498 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.
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