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Auction: 11039 - The Frank Brady Collection of Hammered Groats
Lot: 305

Henry VIII, second coinage, 1526-44, Groat, 2.57g, York, m.m. voided cross both sides (Thomas Wolsey, 1526-30), crowned bust right, fra, rev. long cross fourchée over shield, t-w at sides, Cardinal´s hat below, saltire in forks (N.1799; S.2339; Whitton I; Stewartby p. 473,1), toned, a most pleasing example of this issue, good very fine Estimate £ 350-450 provenance Bt. Spink Cardinal Thomas Wolseley, who from 1523, was both Archbishop of York and Palatine Bishop of Durham, issued the only coins of the Groat denomination bearing the symbols of an English cleric.

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