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1/2 Groat - Henry VII
| Issuer | Ireland |
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| Year | 1496-1505 |
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| Weight | 0.86 g |
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| Reverse lettering | Outer: POSVI DEVMA DIVTOR EMEVM Inner: CIVI TAS DVB LInE (Translation: Outer: "I have made God my helper" Inner: City of Dublin) |
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| Mintage | ND (1496-1505) |
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Henry VII's Irish halfgroats of this period were struck under the authority of the Dublin mint during a reign still recovering from the damage done by Lambert Simnel's 1487 rebellion, which had used Ireland as its launching point precisely because Anglo-Irish lords were hostile to Tudor rule. The Crown's response was Poynings' Law of 1494, which subordinated the Irish Parliament to Westminster — a political tightening that brought the Dublin mint under closer English oversight just as these coins were being produced.
The exceptionally low weight reflects chronic bullion shortages in late 15th-century Ireland, not debasement policy.