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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SwK, post: 1428425, member: 22309&quot;]<b><u>1513 The Earliest Dated English Coin</u></b></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><b>An important rarity of the English series with three only known, this specimen the only piece available to the collector.</b></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><b>RP &amp; GC&nbsp; see&nbsp; <a href="http://www.petitioncrown.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.petitioncrown.com" rel="nofollow">www.petitioncrown.com</a></b></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; The earliest dated coin in the name of an English monarch is the Tournai gros or groat struck by Henry VIII subsequent to his capture of the town in September 1513. Snelling[SUP]1[/SUP]&nbsp; gives the date as the 21[SUP]st [/SUP], Ruding[SUP]2[/SUP] the 23[SUP]rd[/SUP]. Tournai is a small town in present day Belgium, but was in French hands in the early part of the 16[SUP]th[/SUP] century. It remained under English control until October 1518 when an Anglo-French treaty provided for the return of Tournai to France on the payment of 400000 crowns[SUP]1[/SUP] , though <a href="http://www.tudors.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.tudors.org/" rel="nofollow">www.tudors.org</a> quotes the sum as 600000 crowns.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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