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Auction: 11039 - The Frank Brady Collection of Hammered Groats
Lot: 304

Henry VIII, second coinage, 1526-44, Groat, 2.45g, London, m.m. pheon both sides, Laker bust D, with Irish title, hib rex, henric 8, rev. long cross fourchée over shield (N.1798; S.2338; Whitton xii, 2; Stewartby p. 471,1), good fine, very rare Estimate £ 350-450 provenance Bt. Spink The introduction of the reading hib rex in place of a contraction of dominvs hibernie, which had appeared on English coins since the reign of Edward I, is well described in Moody and Martin The Course of Irish History, Cork 1967, p.176.

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