Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 2130. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $5100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LANCASTER. Henry V. 1413-1422. AR Groat (3.59 gm, 7h). London mint; mm: pierced cross with pellet. "Emaciated" bust. Crowned bust facing; trefoil on breast, quatrefoil after first word / Long cross with pellets in quarters; quatrefoil after first word, double saltires after LONDON. Potter class I, dies 2/VI; North 1385; SCBC 1759. VF, toned. The rarest of Henry V groats. ($4000)

The earliest coinage of Henry V mixed in one distinctive early bust type (the "emaciated" bust, with two known dies) with a variety of obverse and reverse dies re-used from his father Henry IV. The regular coinage of Henry V probably began in 1415, as he prepared for his invasion of France. The campaign would start off with the stunning victory at Agincourt and result in Henry being proclaimed the heir to the French throne and acknowledged as the most powerful monarch in western Europe. Henry conceived plans to renew the Crusades to the east, but fell ill during the siege of Meaux and died at the age of 35 in 1422.