Dr. Smith on the Irish Coins of Henry the Seventh. 79 



Assuming that it will be admitted that the groat with the arched crown, and 

 the H in the centre of the reverse (fig. 36) belongs to Henry the Seventh, it can 

 scarcely be doubted that figs. 40, 41, 42, are nearly contemporary with it — 

 GRAciA in the legend — the arrangement of the hair — and the cross fourchee on 

 the reverse are common to both. The cross on fig. 43 over the crown, which 

 seems to have single arches, and the words rex agl in the legend, connect this 

 coin with the double-arched groats figs. 33, 34, while the crosses within the 

 tressure, the word gracia, and the long curls, show how closely allied it is to 

 figs. 40 and 44, the latter of which is remarkable for the h in the centre of 

 the reverse. The cross at each side of the neck and the tressure on fig. 45, 

 connect it with fig. 43, and in every other particular it is almost identical with 

 fig. 50. 



Notwithstanding all the objections which Mr. Lindsay's correspondent has 

 made against the appropriation to Henry the Seventh, of the " groats assigned 

 by Simon to Henry V.," he admits, " the curious groat in (Mr. Lindsay's) col- 

 lection, without a tressure,* to be an early groat of Henry VII." To me this 

 admission is important, yet I must in some measure dissent from it, in expressing 

 my belief, that the coin was struck in the latter part of Henry's reign ; the hair, 

 and the cross at each side of the crown connect it with fig. 41, the absence of the 

 tressure with fig. 55, and the word sivitas occurs on the three coins ; fig. 47 is 

 only a blundered variety of fig. 46, and fig. 48 is a very remarkable coin. 



Of the remaining coins little need be said ; the blundered legends on fig. 57 

 are not more remarkable than those on figs. 42, 47, and 48, and the want of the 

 tressure is the chief distinction between them and fig. 45 ; the word gracia 

 on the obverse — sivitas on three varieties, and the cross fourchee on the 

 reverse — and the form of the letters, concur in making it probable, that all the 

 coins in the last Plate were minted about the same time ; and from the many 

 varieties of type, and the bad style of workmanship of these coins, it is evident 

 that the mint of Dublin was in a very unsettled state ; under these circumstances 

 it is not surprising to find the arched crown abandoned, and the open crown re- 

 sumed in place of it. 



I feel little hesitation now in appropriating these coins to the latter part of 

 the reign of Henry the Seventh. It is not improbable that many of them were 



* See fig. 46. 



