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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;svessien, post: 5195176, member: 15481&quot;]I think I’m going to start participating in medieval mondays, although I don’t have much to share of nor coins or knowledge.</p><p>I have a groat. It’s from what Philip Grierson calls «the end of the middle ages». Like all my medieval coins, I bought it on impulse at an auction because I liked the coin and considered it a good deal, although the edge looks a little trimmed. I regret not having bought Henry VIs half groat that also no one else bid for at the auction. But there will always be another coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1214432[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Henry VI 1422-61 AR Groat</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse: Crowned facing pogrtrait within beaded circle, royal title around</p><p><br /></p><p>Lettering: hEnRIC DI GRA REX AnGL Z FRANC</p><p><br /></p><p>Translation: Henry by the Grace of God King of England and France</p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse: Long cross with trefoils in angles, annulets linking pellets in two opposing angles, legend around in two circles</p><p><br /></p><p>Lettering:</p><p>POSVI DEVM ADIVTORE MEUM</p><p>CIVITAS LONDON</p><p><br /></p><p>Translation:</p><p>I have made God my helper</p><p>City of London</p><p><br /></p><p>Struck at the Tower Mint, London</p><p><br /></p><p>Reference: Spink 1835 </p><p><br /></p><p>Henry VI became king of England and France as an infant. At least he was recognized as king in Paris. At Bourges, however, Charles VII was proclaimed as king, and was crowned in Rheims in 1429, partly due to the efforts of Joanne D’Arc. By 1453, Charles and the French had been able to drive the English out of France. I think I will be looking for a coin from his reign.</p><p>Upon the loss of France, Henry became mentally ill, and was absent from rule for a year. Mental illness seems to have set in regularly in his later years. He is described as a decent man, but a weak ruler. Eventually, the intrigues at the court got the better of him. He was dethroned by Edward IV, suffered hard time imprisonment in the Tower of London, was released, and then imprisoned agai,n. This time he would be killed in prison. It is still a custom that representatives from Eton College and King’s College lay down roses and lillies at the spot where he was killed, on the day of his death.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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