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known to have issued from the York mint in these reigns are 

 pennies. Those of Richard II. are thus described : — 



1. Obv. RICARD REX ANQL Z FRAN. MM. E CrOSS. 



Rev. civiTAS EBORACi. A double rose in the centre of 

 the cross. ^ 



2. Obv. RICARDVS REX ANGLIE. MM. a CrOSS. 



Rev. CIVITAS EBORACI. A cross before civitas.* 

 Other varieties of the York penny of Richard II. are mentioned 

 by Mr. Hawkins, in whose excellent work a single specimen of 

 the very rare York pennies of Henry IV. is engraved : 



Obv. HENRIC REX ANGL Z FRANC. MM. a CrOSS pat^e. 



Rev. civiTAS EBORACI. An open quatrefoil in the centre.' 



No English coins of King Henry V. have been distinctly 

 recognized. A large coinage, which had been undertaken by 

 the government of that monarch a short time previous to his 

 death, was completed in the first year of the reign of his succes- 

 sor. Bartholomew Seman alias Goldbeter, a London goldsmith, 

 who had held under Henry V. the ofiice of master and worker 

 of the king's monies of gold and silver in the tower of London 

 and the town of Calais,* was by an appointment dated the 

 16th of February 1423, authorised to coin at York and Bristol, 

 as well as at London and Calais,^ and by command of the 

 council of King Henry VI. he was sent to York, " to coin there 

 the gold and silver of the said country that was not of right 

 weight, and to remain there during the king's pleasure."^ By 

 a document dated at Westminster a few months later, '' Gold- 

 beter was constituted warden and changer of the king's ex- 

 changes of gold and silver in the city of York ; and by the terms 

 of this appointment he was required to carry all the gold and 

 silver he should receive in the said exchanges, or should pur- 

 chase by color of his office, to the London mint to be melted 

 and coined. About the same time an appointment took place 



» Ruding, Vol. II., p. 308, pi. 4, No. 6. « Hawkms, p. 102, pi. 24, No. 319. 



' Ibid., p. 104, pi. 26, No. 337. ♦ Rot Pari., Vol. IV., p. 177. 



» Ruding, Vol. I., p. 269. « Rot. ParL, Vol IV., p. 200. 



' IStli July 1423. Archives of York Corporation. 



