Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 2172. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TUDOR. Henry VIII. 1509-1547. AR Groat (2.51 g, 2h). Third coinage. Tower mint; mm: lis. Struck 1544-1547. hЄNRIC’ 8 D’ G’ AGL’ FRA’ Z hIB’ RЄX, crowned bust facing slightly right (Laker bust B [bust 1 var.]); saltire stops / POSVI DЄV’ ΛDIVTORЄ’ mЄV’, royal shield over long cross fourchée; annulets in forks, saltire stops. Whitton p. 309, A.2; North 1844; SCBC 2369. VF, flan slightly irregular. Well struck portrait.

From the Ross Schraeder Collection.

Laker notes that bust B is the representation of Henry on a coin that best matches the king’s portrait in the famous painting by Holbein.