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Message:: [QUOTE="talerman, post: 4439041, member: 89314"]I have posted these before on another thread but they seem relevant and additive to this one. IRELAND  Henry VIII  Half Groat with crowned H & A on reverse  n.d. (!534-36) Henry and Anne formally married on 25 January 1533, after a secret wedding on 14 November 1532.  She was crowned Queen of England on 1 June 1533.  She was arrested on 2 May 1536 on charges of adultery and treason (probably fabricated),  found guilty on 15 May and beheaded on 19 May [ATTACH=full]1110154[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1110155[/ATTACH] IRELAND  Henry VIII  Half Groat with crowned H & K on reverse n.d. (1540-42) Henry VIII's fifth wife, Catherine Howard was still a teenager when she married the 49 year old Henry on 28 July 1540 , almost immediately after the annulment of his marriage to Anne of Cleves, to whom Catherine had been a lady-in-waiting. She was stripped of her title as queen on 23 November 1541 and beheaded three months later on 13 February 1542, on the grounds of treason for committing adultery with her distant cousin Thomas Culpepper, a courtier and a friend of the king. Culpepper had already been beheaded on 10 December 1541. [ATTACH=full]1110157[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1110158[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]