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1 Groat - Henry VI Rosette-mascle issue, London mint
| Issuer | England |
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| Year | 1430-1431 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Facing crowned bust of Henry VI within a tressure of arches, rendered in the Gothic style characteristic of early fifteenth-century English hammered coinage. The king is depicted full-face with a stylized crown and draped shoulders. The surrounding legend is interspersed with alternating rosettes and mascles as punctuation marks, a defining feature of this issue. The legend runs in uncial Latin script within the beaded inner circle. |
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| Reverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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The Rosette-mascle issue falls within Henry VI's first reign and takes its name from the combination of rosette and mascle (a lozenge-shaped voided ornament) stops used in the legends to distinguish it from adjacent issues. This was a period of mounting fiscal strain — English military commitments in France were consuming Crown revenues, and the mint was under pressure to sustain coinage output while bullion supplies tightened. The London mint remained the dominant producer, though Calais was striking concurrently under the same issue.
The mascle stop is the collector's primary tool for attribution within the Henry VI annulet-through-leaf sequence.