A guide to the Department of coins and medals in the British museum (1922)
British Museum. Dept. of Coins and Medals, Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London : The Trustees · leaf 58
1460, when Henry VI struck the groat, the earliest issue ofthat denomination in Ireland (Nos. 14-17). During this period thecoinage had been of a very intermittent character, as none isknown of Eichard II or Henry IV and V. The obverse type of thenew groat of Henry VI differed from any used either… … Fig. 35. Irish Groat of Edward IV. A. D. 1478. towards the end of his reign he introduced another new type,having on the obverse the arms of England on a shield, and onthe reverse three crowns in pale on a cross, the supposed arms ofIreland (No. 37, Fig. 35). Edward IV did much to place the…
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