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Obv. RICARD DI GRA REX ANQL Z FRANC. 



Rev. posvi DEVM ADivTORE MEVM, outcr circle. 



civiTAs EBORACi, inner circle, mm. United rose and 

 sun. 

 The Yorkshire Philosophical Society possesses one specimen 

 of the penny : ^ — 



Obv. RICARD Cross or rose on the breast. 



Rev. CIVITAS EBORACI. Quatrcfoil in centre of cross. 



King Henry VII. had three great coinages of silver, the earliest 

 of which took place in the second year after his accession.^ The 

 greater number of the existing specimens of the York coins of 

 this reign are of those which were struck in the mint of the 

 Archbishops of York, and it is not always practicable to dis- 

 criminate between the archiepiscopal coins and those issued 

 from the royal mint. 



A half-groat of the first coinage, of which several specimens 

 are known, is thus described : ^ 



Obv. HENRici DI GRA REX AGLi z FRAN. A rosctte be- 

 tween each word. 

 Rev. POSVI DEVM ADIVTORE MEVM, outcr circlc. 



CIVITAS EBORACI, inner circle, mm. lis on both sides. 

 The following half-groat of the second coinage is most pro- 

 bably of the royal mint : ■* 



Obv. HENRic DI GRA REX AGL. Full facc with archcd 



crown. 

 Rev. POSVI DEVM ADIVTORE MEVM, outcr circlc. 



CIVITAS EBORACI, inner circle. mm. a martlet on 

 both sides. 

 Of the third coinage, which took place in the 18th year of 

 this reign, ^ no York specimens are known but such as appear 

 to have issued from the archiepiscopal mint. 



> M.S. Catalogue, p. 75, No. 103. 



2 Dies for the provincial mints wore delivered in Jidy 1487. 



3 Ending, Supp. pi. 2, No. 22. Hawkins, p. 122. 

 ♦ Ending, Vol. II., p. 310. PI. 6, No. 9. 



^ Several remaikablc novelties were introduced about this time. Gold coins 

 called sovereigns and half sovereigns, and silver coins called shillings were now 



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