Henry VIII Groat
ahopewell55
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For sometime now I've been looking for a representative portrait of Henry VIII on a silver coin. I've always been fascinated with that time period with the religious turmoil and the Divine Right of Kings. Most of the coins that I see have poor strikes or other condition problems. This coin happens to be the AU55 Coinfacts coin and looks quite good to me. They were hand hammered and therefor no two coins were exactly alike. It's also the most eye-appealing coin in its group of three (S-2337E). Comments welcome.
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That can't always be said for silver coins of that era.
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That's a really exceptional looking coin, even if this Henry is the younger, more handsome version instead of the old, fat, wife-beheading one.
Love it.
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Love it! I have the same one, but not quite as nice as yours.
That one ain't shabby at all!
The OP's coin is a killer, but yours is still sweet.
Edit to add: hypothetically speaking, either one of those would be very welcome in my collection.