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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sylvester, post: 76282, member: 708&quot;]The Henry VI groats you picture are actually &#039;English&#039;, yes they were minted in Calais (and yes i have one), but Calais was part of England, not France. Sounds odd perhaps but you have to realise that other parts of what is now France were not French then either, take Brittany it was an independent country until the reign of Henry VII.</p><p><br /></p><p>Henry VI though did have some French coins issued in France (because he was theoretically the king of France). The strangest thing of all is the only king of England that has ever been the king of France (or the closest there&#039;s ever been) was Henry VI. Not Henry V, Edward III or any other more useful king.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course the Norman-Angevin Empire ruled more of &#039;France&#039; than the French king did, Normandy, Aquitane, Anjou... and then John lost it all and nearly lost England to the French as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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