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1 Penny - Henry III Short Cross type, class 7c
| Issuer | England |
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| Year | 1216-1247 |
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| Diameter | 17 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse lettering | +TONAS ON CANT (Translation: Tomas of Canterbury) |
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The Short Cross penny series ran from 1180 under Henry II through most of Henry III's reign, with the cross on the reverse deliberately kept short of the coin's edge — a design choice that made clipping harder to detect, since clippers could remove silver from the rim without visibly cutting into the design. Class 7 issues fall within the period when the coinage was deeply problematic: widespread clipping and the circulation of foreign imitations had so degraded the currency that Henry III eventually commissioned a full recoinage in 1247, replacing the Short Cross type entirely with the Long Cross design, whose arms now reached the rim precisely to expose clipping.