_Legend._ RICARD. RICARDVS.--D. G. DI. G. or DI. GRA.--R. REX.--ANG. ANGL. or ANGLIE.--Z. FRA. FRANC. or FRANCIE. REVERSE.--_Type_ and _Legend_. Similar to the preceding reign; on some, a rose in the centre of the cross. _Rarity._ All rare. _Gold._ Nobles, Half-nobles, and Quarter nobles; same types as before, with only the necessary change in the legend. All rare; the Half-noble particularly so. HENRY IV. (1399 to 1413.) DENOMINATIONS.--_Silver._ Groat, Half-groat, Penny, Halfpenny, and Farthing. _Gold._ Noble, Half-noble, and Quarter-noble. OBVERSE.--_Type._ All his coins like his predecessor’s; (the head within the circle of arches on the Groat and Half-groat;) and are only to be distinguished from those of his successors Henry V. and VI. by weight. The Groat weighs seventy-two grains, the others of course of proportionate weights. _Legend._ HENRIC. or HENRICVS.--D. G. or DI. GRA.--REX. ANGL. or ANGLIE.--Z. FRAN. or FRANC.--D. or DNS. HI. HIB. or HYB.--Z. AQ. or AQE., etc. REVERSE.--_Type._ As his predecessor’s; the pellets in two of the quarters are joined together by an annulet. _Legend._ Groat and Half-groat; POSVI DEVM ADIVTOREM MEV or MEVM in outer circle, and name of town, as CIVITAS LONDON, in inner one. Pennies, etc., names of towns, as CIVITAS EBORACI, etc. _Rarity._ Not uncommon; Groat rarest. [Illustration] _Gold._ Noble, Half-noble, and Quarter-noble, same as Richard II., with only alteration of name. All rare; first coinage particularly so. [Illustration] HENRY V. (1413 to 1422.) His coins are precisely like Henry IV.; no distinguishing mark has as yet been discovered, so that what is said of the one will equally apply to the other. HENRY VI. (1422 to 1461.) DENOMINATIONS.--_Silver._ Groat, Half-groat, Penny, Halfpenny, and Farthing. _Gold._ Noble, Half-noble, Quarter-noble, and, later, Angel, and Half-angel or Angelet. _Silver._ Same in every respect with the preceding ones, the only distinction being by weight, and minor differences, which are not to be taken as certain indications for appropriation; the weight of the earlier Groat being 60 grains, and the later, or “light coinage,” 48, and the other coins in proportion; the 48 grains Groat very rare. [Illustration] _Gold._ Noble, Half-noble, and Quarter-noble, as before. The Angel, and Angelet or Half-angel, bear on the obverse a winged and nimbed figure of the Archangel Michael standing upon a dragon, which he is transfixing through the mouth with a spear, the upper end of which terminates in a cross crosslet. _Legend._ HENRIC DI GRA REX ANGL Z FRANC.; or HENRIC DEI GRA REX ANGL Z FR. REVERSE.--A ship with a large plain cross in place of mast, on which is a shield of the royal arms. On the dexter side of the cross a letter H, on the sinister a fleur-de-lis. _Legend._ PER CRVSE TVA SALVA NOS XPE REDETOR.; or IHC AVTE TRANSIENS PER MEDIV ILORV.; or O CRVX AVE SPES VNICA. _Rarity._ All rare. EDWARD IV. (1461 to 1483.)