Details
LOT 3839
England. Tudor, Henry VIII AR Halfpenny. Struck 1509-1526. London (Tower) mint; i.m: portcullis crowned/-. First coinage.
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Provenance
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
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