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Auction: 11009 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins& Com Medals
Lot: 628

Henry IV (1399-1413), light coinage, 1412-13, Groat, 3.18g, type III, London, m.m. cross pattée, nine arches, pellet to left of crown, trefoil on breast, franc, rev. inverted ns, slipped trefoil after posvi, saltire stops (Potter type III, die 1 and BNJ XXX pl. VIII, 7-same dies; N.1359b; S.1728), short of flan and slightly dished, good fine / nearly very fine, extremely rare, a great rarity of the English medieval Groat series Estimate £ 2,500-3,500 provenance Found Chalgrove, Oxfordshire, November 2007 (Treasure Report 2008 T88 part-disclaimed)

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