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1/2 Penny - Henry VI 1st reign, Trefoil issue
| Issuer | England |
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| Year | 1438-1443 |
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| Value | 1/2 Penny (1⁄480) |
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| Obverse lettering | + HENRIC REX ANGL (Translation: Henry King of England) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Trefoil issue falls within Henry VI's prolonged struggle to maintain English finances during the final, deteriorating years of the Hundred Years' War. By the late 1430s, the crown was chronically short of bullion, and the halfpenny — already the smallest silver denomination in circulation — was being produced in increasingly reduced quantities as silver flowed out of England faster than it arrived at the Tower mint.
The issue takes its name from the trefoil privy marks used to distinguish it, a period when mint officials relied on such marks to track accountability across different melting and striking sessions.