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| HENRIC VIII RVTILANS ROSA SINE SPIA', crowned double rose flanked by crowned H and K (Henry and Katherine of Aragon); saltire stops | DEI G' R' AGLIE' Z FRANC' DNS' hIBERNIE, crowned royal coat-of-arms; double saltire stops. |
| AV Crown of the Double Rose (26mm, 3.69 g, 8h). Second coinage, struck 1526–1529. London mint; mm: rose. | |
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(fine silver, 41mm, 30.78 g, 9h; third period)
The crown, originally known as the "crown of the double rose", was an English coin introduced as part of King Henry VIII's monetary reform of 1526, with a value of 1⁄4 of one pound, or five shillings, or 60 pence.