Does anyone have a Henry VIII coin?
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Just wondering if anyone does and can you share it?
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Henry VIII (1509-1547 A.D.)
AR Groat
Second Coinage
O: hЄnRIC’ VIII D’ G’ R’ ΛGLIЄ Z FRΛnCЄ, crowned bust right (Laker bust D); saltire stops, Lombardic lettering.
R: POSVI DEV’ ΛDIVTORЄ’ mЄV’, royal shield over long cross fourchée; saltires in forks, double saltire stops, Lombardic lettering.
Tower mint; im:arrow, 1526-1532 A.D.
25mm
2.55g
SCBC 2337E; North 1797
Henry VIII (1509-1547 A.D.)
AR Groat
Third Coinage
O: D. G. AnG. FRA. Z hIB. RЄX, , crowned bearded bust half right, rose after rex. , Laker bust A.
R: C[IVI] TAS BRIS TOLIЄ, royal coat-of-arms over long cross fourchée; lis in forks; pellet below third quarter of shield; rose after TAS, lis before BRIS; pellet on inner border.
Bristol mint; im: -/WS “monogram of William Sharrington” Struck circa 1546-1547.
2.45g
26mm
North 1846; SCBC 2372
Henry VIII had quite a variety of coins. Some were literally his father's (with his father's portrait); some were even more traditional than that (with a facing bust of a 'king'). He even had what I think was England's smallest ever coin, the farthing with a portcullis (which inspired the penny of Elizabeth II). Then he had quite a few different portraits that very much looked like the king we know.
Henry VIII Groat, 1526-1532
Tower. Silver, 2.77g. Second coinage. Mint mark arrow. Bust D, HENRIC VIII D G R AGLIE Z FRANC (Henry VIII by the Grace of God King of England and France). POSVI DEU ADIVTORE MEU (I have made God my helper) (S 2337E).
Half Crown.
DPOTD
Looked like he played football and broke his nose once too often! 😂
He was into tennis. It was probably the wrestling with other monarchs that did it.
Here are groats (fourpence) of the first, second, and third periods of his reign, and a late reign testoon (shilling). The early groats have the portrait of Henry VII. The late groats have the old rotund portrait of Henry VIII that we know and love. The testoons are debased silver and frequently show base metal in worn areas, such as the face (“Old Coppernose”)
Jousting is what he really liked. He suffered a serious injury in the 1530's that never healed and contributed to his great weight gain in his later years.
Another Henry VIII Groat:
England Henry VIII Groat
Silver, 24 mm, 3.05 gm
Obverse:
Crowned bust of King Henry VII facing right
HENRIC VIII DI GRA REX AGL Z FR(A)
(Henry the Eighth by the Grace of God King of England and France)
Portcullis mintmark top right
Reverse:
Quartered shield of arms over long cross
POSVI DEV ADIVTORE MEV (I have made God my helper)
Struck 1509-1526 when Henry was happily married to Catherine of Aragon
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Second coinage, 1526-44, Lis mint mark. S-2337E
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Very nice
Article about the counterfeit coins made during Henry VIII rein.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/42682292?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
Episcopal halfpenny of Archbishop Warham, struck at Canterbury.
Second issue halfpenny from the Tower mint with the Sunburst mark
Another episcopal halfpenny, this time from York under Archbishop Lee
For something a little larger, an episcopal 'Sovereign' penny of Durham under Thomas Ruthall
Another Sovereign penny of Durham, but this time under Thomas Wolsey
Wolsey also coined first issue pence at Durham. These are distinguishable by the spur rowel mark
Old Copper Nose.
Can you help me by showing where and what the mint mark is?
As a general rule where we’re the mint marks placed?
An arrow, at the top at the start of the legend, just after 12 o'clock on both sides. That (or at 12 o'clock) is a very common place for a mintmark on English hammered coins of all eras, although not always both sides.
On yours (on your other post) it's in the same place - the fleur de lys mintmark, both sides.
Groat Third coinage 1544-7 Bust 1