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Description: | A complete, slightly bent, clipped and pierced Medieval silver halfgroat of Henry VII (1485-1509), minted at Canterbury. Initial mark: tun/lis, 1486-1504. Struck under the King and Archbishop Morton jointly? (c. 1490-1500) (North 1991: 102, ref: 1712, class IIIb).Obverse: hEnRIC [ ]nC Z (rosette stops); Crowned bust facing within a tressure of archesReverse: POSVI/DEV A/DIVTO/E MEV (rosettes stops) (I have made God my Helper); CIVI/TAS/CAn/TOR; Long cross dividing the inscription with three pellets in each quadrantThe coin has a pierced circular hole, 1.6mm in diameter, at six o' clock on the obverse.Diameter: 18.3mm. Weight: 1.51g. DA=12:3.North, J.J. 1991. English Hammered Coinage, Volume II, Edward I to Charles II, 1272-1662. Spink & Son, London.
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