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1 Angel - Henry VIII 1st coinage
| Issuer | England |
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| Year | 1509-1526 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | An English man-of-war (royal galley) depicted in full sail facing right, with a shield bearing the royal arms of England and France quarterly affixed to the hull, a large letter H (for Henricus) and a Tudor rose positioned below the main topmast. The mast is topped with a crow's nest. The ship is rendered in the characteristic stylised manner of early Tudor hammered gold coinage. The peripheral legend in uncial letters runs between two beaded borders, with the inscription referencing salvation through the Cross of Christ. |
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| Reverse lettering | PER CRVCE TVA SALVA NOS XPC REDE[MPTOR] (Translation: By Thy Cross save us Christ our Redeemer) |
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Henry VIII's first coinage retained the weight and fineness established under his father, a deliberate continuity that distinguished it from the debasements that would define his later reign. The Angel denomination itself had circulated since Edward IV introduced it in 1464, partly as a response to public distrust of the earlier gold noble, and it maintained a fixed value of 6 shillings 8 pence — one-third of a pound — throughout this early period.
The series was struck at the Tower Mint under the mastership of Edmund Peckham's predecessors, with dies cut to standards that held relatively firm until the break with Rome began reshaping royal finance after 1527.