Obverse:

HENRIC DI GRA REX ANGL Z FRAN. Crowned facing bust in tressure of arches, trefoils by neck. 

Reverse:

POSVI DEVM ADIVTORE MEVM, CIVITAS LONDON. Long cross pattée dividing the legend, with three pellets in each angle. Trefoils after POSVI, CIVI and DON.

Very fine and toned. Obverse of Whitton 34* (corrigenda) and reverse not listed. The reverse shares the same legend reading of 26g (Leaf-trefoil issue) but with A2 rather than A1. Same dies as British Museum 1993,0423.182 (also from the Reigate Hoard).

Ex R. Renshaw Collection [bt Grantham Coins 1992]

Ex Reigate Hoard, Glendining Auction, 8 Dec 1992 - Lot 336 (Part)

The Reigate hoard was found on 31 October 1972 in Wray Lane, Reigate, Surrey. It contained 136 gold and 6,567 silver coins, the earliest coins were groats and half-groats of Edward Ill's Pre-Treaty Coinage, series C, struck from 1351 and the latest, a group of Leaf-Pellet groats of Henry VI. It is estimated that the deposition date was around c.1454-5.

See:

C. A. Whitton, (1942-44) ‘The heavy coinage of Henry VI’ (aggenda and corrigenda to B.N.J. Vol. XXIII) BNJ vol. 24, pg. 118.

C. A. Whitton, (1938-41) '‘The heavy coinage of Henry VI’ Part II. The Rosette Mascle to Trefoil Issues', BNJ vol. 23, pg. 237.