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Message:: [QUOTE="Nap, post: 8420049, member: 73099"]The keys are indicative of the Archbishop's mint at York. Keys are seen on the coins of the archbishops Thomas Rotherham (1480-1500), Thomas Savage (1501-1507), and Christopher Bainbridge (1508-1514).  In fact, if you go back a bit earlier, keys are also seen on the ecclesiastic coinage of the archbishops George Neville (1465-1476) and Lawrence Booth (1476-1480) during the reign of Edward IV. Your particular halfgroat is attributed to archbishop Savage (1501-1507). Based on the mintmark, the issue is given as 1502-1504.  Interestingly, this was when the profile coinage was being introduced, with the testoon (shilling) and tentative groat, but the halfgroat retained the "medieval" portrait style.  It should be noted that both the facing bust "medieval" style and profile "Renaissance" style coins were produced alongside each other for a time- there was overlap and they did not follow in strict sequence.  Also, the detail of the bust on the late profile groats is much more artistic than the stylized portraits on the earlier coins of Henry VII, and all of the Plantagenet coins. I don't have an ecclesiastic coin from Henry VII, or a halfgroat, or one from York.  But here are two of my Henry VII coins- both groats, one from the earlier facing bust style, and one from the later profile style: [ATTACH=full]1493330[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1493331[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]