6 Pence - Henry VIII

Aversbeschreibung	Crowned facing bust of Henry VIII, wearing a jewelled crown and draped in royal robes with a visible collar, set within a beaded inner circle. The king's face is rendered in a stylized frontal portrait typical of late Henrician hammered coinage. The surrounding legend reads HENRIC 8 D G AGL FRA Z HIB REX, identifying the monarch as King of England, France, and Ireland, separated by stops and arranged around the full circumference of the coin.
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Auflage	1550: ND (1550)
Zusätzliche Informationen	This piece dates to the final years of Henry VIII's systematic debasement of Irish coinage, a policy that ran from roughly 1540 until his death in 1547 — meaning this 1550 issue was struck under Edward VI while still carrying his father's name and portrait, a common transitional practice. The Irish mint at Dublin was particularly aggressive in reducing silver fineness during this period, producing coins that contemporaries complained turned their skin green and their purses worthless. Spink 6488 is among the scarcer denominations of the harp coinage debased series, with surviving examples frequently showing corrosion consistent with the low silver content reacting over centuries.