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1/2 Groat - Henry VIII 1st coinage, Canterbury mint
| Issuer | Canterbury Mint (under Archbishop Warham) |
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| Year | 1509-1526 |
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| Diameter | 20 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | [mm] hEnRIC`xVIIIxD`xG`xR`xAGL`xZxH`x (Translation: Henry the Eighth by the Grace of God King of England and Ireland) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Henry VIII's first coinage was in fact a direct continuation of his father's monetary system — same weights, same types, same mints. Canterbury operated under the authority of Archbishop William Warham, one of the last great ecclesiastical mint operators in England; the Archbishop's personal mark appears alongside the royal mint mark, a dual authority that would become politically untenable within a generation. Warham died in 1532, just months before Thomas Cromwell began dismantling exactly the kind of church independence his Canterbury operation represented.