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Description: | Groat of Henry VIII, third coinage (1544-47), 25mm in diameter and weighing 2.49g (38.5gn).
Mint: Tower
Reference: North 1844; Spink 2369
This is part of a hoard, which consists of five silver coins (a shilling WILT-5A5B52, three groats WILT-5A2F97, WILT-5A16E4, WILT-59E1D5 and one halfgroat WILT-5A46E1) covering the period between the end of the reign of Henry VIII to the beginning of that of Edward IV, and a silver finger-ring WILT-5A7818. The halfgroat was discovered lying inside the finger-ring although this is probably fortuitous as the land had been ploughed.
Four of the coins (WILT-5A46E1, WILT-5A2F97, WILT-5A16E4, WILT-59E1D5) belong to the main period of the Great Debasement and it is virtually certain that they were struck to the 4 oz standard and would thus be a third (33.33%) fine metal. The latest coin in the hoard is an Edward VI second period shilling of the Canterbury mint, dated 1549, and struck to a raised 6oz standard (50% fine metal). The quantity of silver they contained was no different from the previous issues - they were finer but lighter. The group does not contain any of the coins of the last debasement period, 1550-1, when the silver content of shillings was reduced to 3oz (25% fine metal), the lowest level of the whole debasement period. It is likely that the group would have been taken from currency at this point. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1544
1547 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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