1 Groat - Henry VII facing bust, London

Henry VII's earliest groats, struck in the first years after Bosworth, used a three-quarter facing bust that had no real precedent in English coinage — a deliberate break from the Yorkist profile portraits that preceded it. The design is attributed to a Flemish influence brought in as the new Tudor regime sought to project a more sophisticated, continental image of kingship. This particular bust type was soon superseded by the more accomplished facing portrait introduced around 1489, making the 1485–1487 issues a transitional and relatively brief emission.