Obverse:

HENRIC DI GRA REX ANGL Z FRANC. Crowned facing bust in tressure of arches. Leaf in legend.

Reverse:

POSVI DEVM ADIVTORE MEVM, CIVITAS LONDON. Long cross pattée dividing the legend, with three pellets in each angle. Leaf, mascle and trefoil in legend.

Good very fine, rare and especially so in this grade. Whitton no. 26d, with mascle before TAS.

Ex R. Renshaw Collection

Ex Reigate Hoard, Glendining Auction, 8 Dec 1992 - Lot 331 (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.

For further reading see:

C. A. Whitton, (1938-41) '‘The heavy coinage of Henry VI’ Part II. The Rosette Mascle to Trefoil Issues', BNJ vol. 23, pg. 235.