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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4416817, member: 110350&quot;]When I actively collected British coins, I had very few hammered ones.&nbsp; But up until about five years ago, I did own very nice examples of a Henry VIII groat (with a portrait in profile that strongly resembled the one that appears on later groats of his father Henry VII), a couple of Edward VI fine shillings, a Philip &amp; Mary shilling, and a 1582 Elizabeth I sixpence.&nbsp; Unfortunately, I had to sell all of them (and didn&#039;t take any photos before I sold them) except the Elizabeth I sixpence, which was the most worn of all of them, so I kept it.&nbsp; But it still has a very recognizable portrait, and I just posted photos of it a little while ago today in the &quot;King&#039;s Day&quot; thread.&nbsp; See those photos, with a detailed description of the coin, at <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/kings%E2%80%99s-day.359060/#post-4416690" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/kings%E2%80%99s-day.359060/#post-4416690">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/kings’s-day.359060/#post-4416690</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>As pointed out above, it&#039;s much easier to find a good-looking Henry VIII portrait in profile than one of the full-face ones, even though the latter are considerably more recognizable as his face.&nbsp; See these two very dubious-looking full-face examples currently on sale at VCoins:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/den_of_antiquity/48/product/scarce_henry_viii_ar_groat_bristol_mint/1189215/Default.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/den_of_antiquity/48/product/scarce_henry_viii_ar_groat_bristol_mint/1189215/Default.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/den_of_antiquity/48/product/scarce_henry_viii_ar_groat_bristol_mint/1189215/Default.aspx</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/den_of_antiquity/48/product/henry_viii_ar_groat_struck_under_edward_vi/1053268/Default.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/den_of_antiquity/48/product/henry_viii_ar_groat_struck_under_edward_vi/1053268/Default.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/den_of_antiquity/48/product/henry_viii_ar_groat_struck_under_edward_vi/1053268/Default.aspx</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER], regarding Thomas Cromwell and his family: his wife and two of his three children died (probably of sweating sickness) in 1529, several years before he rose to power under Henry VIII, and eleven years before his execution. So it isn&#039;t exactly fair to say he was spared this disease by the headman&#039;s axe! I know you&#039;ve said you don&#039;t like historical fiction, but I do <u>very</u> highly recommend Hilary Mantel&#039;s Wolf Hall trilogy about Thomas Cromwell&#039;s rise and fall: the first two each won the Man Booker prize, and I just finished the third one, <i>The Mirror and the Light</i>, which was recently published.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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