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Auction: 5020 - The Ivan Buck Collection and Other Properties
Lot: 92

Henry IV, light coinage (1412-13), Groat, 3.73g., London, type I, in the style of Richard II, pellet to left and annulet to right of crown, trefoil on breast, HENRIC´DEI GRA REX ANGLIE, rev. double saltire stops, reads LOnDON, (Potter type I, die I var.; S.1726; N.1358) traces of horn silver deposit on both sides, has been cleaned, otherwise neatly struck on a round flan, with a clear portrait, almost very fine, extremely rare Estimate £ 2,000-2,500PROVENANCE: Purchased from metal detector finder, October 2003 This obverse die is not recorded by Potter, BNJ, XXX, p. 131. The portrait and lettering is in the style of the late Groats of Richard II but this appears to be a new obverse die of Henry IV, not an altered die of Richard II. A light coinage Groat of Henry IV reading LONDOn was listed in Seaby´s Coin and Medal Bulletin, February 1987, no. 13, but this reading, LOnDON, appears to be unrecorded.

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