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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;talerman, post: 4314446, member: 89314&quot;]IRELAND&nbsp; Henry VIII (1509-47) - with Katherine Howard&nbsp; Groat n.d. (1540-42)</p><p><br /></p><p>Harp on reverse divides a crowned H and a crowned K.&nbsp; Katherine&#039;s appearance on Irish coinage was quite brief.&nbsp; Henry VIII&#039;s fifth wife, she 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 in 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. (Wikipedia)</p><p><br /></p><p>Coins with the K of Katherine Howard were struck from August 1540 to February 1542.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Catherine Howard</b></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HowardCatherine02.jpeg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HowardCatherine02.jpeg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/HowardCatherine02.jpeg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p>Portrait miniature by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Holbein_the_Younger" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Holbein_the_Younger" rel="nofollow">Hans Holbein the Younger</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1097115[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1097116[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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