Lot 94
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Henry VIII, Groat, 2.95g., first coinage, m.m. portcullis with chains (overstruck on obv. over T crowned (Tournai)), reads FRA (Whitton p.207 (iii) 5; N.1762; S.2316), about very fine, rare
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Henry VIII, Groat, 2.95g., first coinage, m.m. portcullis with chains (overstruck on obv. over T crowned (Tournai)), reads FRA (Whitton p.207 (iii) 5; N.1762; S.2316), about very fine, rare

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Henry VIII, Groat, 2.95g., first coinage, m.m. portcullis with chains (overstruck on obv. over T crowned (Tournai)), reads FRA (Whitton p.207 (iii) 5; N.1762; S.2316), about very fine, rare
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Lot Essay

Stewartby, BNJ 1986, p.189-90, reviews the known portcullis Groats with the mintmark portcullis punched over a crowned Gothic T on the obverse. This example is very similar to the specimen illustrated, reading FRA and having the regnal numeral viij, but is from a different die.