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1 Angel - Henry VI Restoration, London mint
| Issuer | England |
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| Year | 1470-1471 |
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| Weight | 5.09 g |
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| Reverse description | A large medieval ship is depicted in profile, its hull riding stylised waves in the lower field, with rigging lines extending to the mast. At the centre of the vessel a quartered royal shield of arms — bearing the lilies of France and the lions passant guardant of England quarterly — is prominently displayed, surmounted by a large cross. The composition is framed by a beaded inner circle, with the surrounding legend in uncial Gothic lettering referencing Christ as Redeemer. |
| Reverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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Henry VI's restoration — known to contemporaries as the "Readeption" — lasted barely six months, from October 1470 to April 1471, when Edward IV returned from Flemish exile and crushed the Lancastrian forces at Barnet and Tewkesbury. The entire coinage window for this issue spans that narrow interval, making surviving examples genuinely rare by any reckoning tied to political circumstance rather than mintage accident.
The Angel denomination had been introduced by Edward IV in 1465, and Henry's restored government simply continued striking it — a pragmatic acknowledgment that the type had achieved sufficient commercial acceptance to retain without alteration. Henry was captured at the Battle of Tewkesbury's aftermath and murdered in the Tower on or about May 21, 1471.