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Description: | Late medieval coin hoard, 322 late medieval groats.Report by Dr Barrie J. Cook (Curator of Medieval and Early Modern Coinage, British Museum) follows:"All but two of the total group (322 coins) are English groats (two of these were broken into two fragments each, but can be reconstituted to form whole coins). These would have been issued to the established sterling standard, i.e. 92.5% fine metal. The remaining 2 coins are groats of Scotland, also coins of good silver, small numbers of which are usually found among large groups of English groats in coin hoards of the fifteenth century. A detailed list accompanies this report.The majority of coins present are groats of Kings Henry V (1413-22), Henry VI (1422-60) and Edward IV, struck to the weight standard introduced in 1412: that of the 15-grain penny, under which a full-weight groat should weigh c. 3.9 grams (in practice most weigh a bit less than this). There are a number of older groats from the very large issues of Edward III struck originally to the 18-grain penny standard, but these are mostly clipped down to the 15-grain standard. However, there are also 18 coins of the new weight standard (based on the 12-grain penny), introduced by Edward IV in 1464 (by which full-weight groat should weight 3.1 grams) and some of the pre-1464 coins appear to have been clipped down to this new level. The light coinage groats are all of class 5 only, the first of the light coinage issues, in production July 1664 to July 1465. It seems evident, therefore, that the group represents a deposit made probably in the summer of 1465, before the currency had fully transitioned to match the new weight standard.These coins are all of good silver, representing a group that was in currency at the same time, and a batch of material of significant value selected by denomination."
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