Lot 83
83
Henry VII, Halfgroat, 1.40g., profile issue, London, m.m. lis on rev. only, reads HENRIC DI GRA, omitting king's numeral, saltire stops, oranmental A's on both sides, rev. cross-end no.10 (P & W p.115, no.1; N.1748; S.2260), faint scratches on both sides, otherwise about very fine and full, excessively rare
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Henry VII, Halfgroat, 1.40g., profile issue, London, m.m. lis on rev. only, reads HENRIC DI GRA, omitting king's numeral, saltire stops, oranmental A's on both sides, rev. cross-end no.10 (P & W p.115, no.1; N.1748; S.2260), faint scratches on both sides, otherwise about very fine and full, excessively rare

Details
Henry VII, Halfgroat, 1.40g., profile issue, London, m.m. lis on rev. only, reads HENRIC DI GRA, omitting king's numeral, saltire stops, oranmental A's on both sides, rev. cross-end no.10 (P & W p.115, no.1; N.1748; S.2260), faint scratches on both sides, otherwise about very fine and full, excessively rare
Provenance
British Museum Duplicates
F A Walters, Sotheby, 24 October 1932, lot 390
V J E Ryan, Glendining, 22 January 1952, lot 974
D Dupree, collection purchased by Spink, 1989
Special notice
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Lot Essay

Potter and Winstanley place this as the very first profile Halfgroat and equate it with the experimental tentative Groats. There are three known specimens, one being in the British Museum.