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Message:: [QUOTE="sylvester, post: 76513, member: 708"]I don't have my references at hand immediately so i'll have to get back to you on this one. What i can tell you though is that hammered coinages are generally referred to either by classes or by coinages. Henry VIII's earliest coins were ones with Henry VII's portrait on the obverse (i can't remember if this is the first coinage though, or whether it's Henry VII's posthumous issue). Henry VIII's third coinage was the debased issue. Henry VIII was young once you know, it helps to think of him as a rugby player (according to David Starkey), when he was young he was alot more agile, yes he had a big frame even then, but it was more like a rugby player, more muscle and such rasther than anything else. Afterall he spent alot of time jousting and training in war combat. He and his contemporary in France Francis I considered themselves renaissance kings, cultured, athletic, patrons of the arts. But like so many rugby players, alot of eating and alcohol led to the athletic king turning into a big fat mess that had to be moved around with cranes by the end. 1526 is a fairly good year too, it was probably the last year of medieval England, for 1527 saw the divorce issue and the eventual Break with Rome and consequently the Reformation and all the nastiness that followed it from 1540 to 1560.[/QUOTE]