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Nobody knows with any certainty. It is conjecture and as such just another opinion. I do think that there is a good case for revisiting all three Henries and starting from scratch because both the IV/V and V/VI divides have not been unambiguously made. Whether sufficient references are available or not to make a clear decision, then I'm not sure they are. It may have to be one of those questions that forever resides in the pending tray.

yo! went to the historic dockyards down at Portsmouth yesterday....saw the Mary Rose.....it blew my brains out. remember watching it being raised on tv back when i was a nipper....apart from all the obvious stuff, stunning cannons with flint-filled cartridges (brutal), skulls with arrow holes in the top, weapons, clothing, personalised carved bowls, surgery tools, yew bows etc etc the things that really hit me were going out into the top level and the smell hitting me....gorgeous.....and there was a tile that was salvaged that had a dog pawprint in it.....500 years ago the tilemakers dog stepped into this one whilst being made and it was still fired and then found its way onto the rose....dunno why, but it just fried me head. anyway....of course there were some outstanding coins, many in gold from the pursers chest/room.....seems he was also a numismatist lolol....one of the coins dated 60 years earlier and there were also foreign examples...the silver ones were mainly lumped to gether but the gold was of course pretty much untouched. so.....y'all get there....the way theyve got it displayed is staggering....you will not be disapponted!! and added to that the antiques shop which is based there is mindblowing....old flintlocks, samurai swords, an array of fairbairn sykes originals, masses of medals and old toys from my youth, clocks, books, ship navigation pieces, jade, ancient coins, paintings etc..... and then later....i was given a load of coins....got a bit excited initially as one seemed to be a 1788 spade half but it felt too light and sure enough was a peverell once i researched....but also an old nuremburg jeton....1807 penny....1723 irish ha'penny...1853 penny, all very nice....various other copper and a ton of threepences, sixpences, farthings etc plus some nice unc decimal stuff including first 2 pound coin, five pound coins etc etc....and a bag of foreign coins from just about everywhere...usa to hong kong to 1st and 2nd ww german, europe, singapore, malaysia, russia etc.... so...a good all-round day of coins and general chocolately-goodness!!! booyakasha! prep

Sitting with a family of Gorillas in Uganda

Ribs,chow mien and spring rolls. Not bad at all.

I gave this a go with a little help from Google Translator. However, my knowledge of written Chinese only peaked at GCSE standard and so I can't be held responsible for inaccuracies ... Ping An of China Insurance (holding) limited company commissioned Old Feng Yang Ltd of Shanghai to mint " Commemoration of Ping An of China's successful flotation on the Stock Market" silver medallions. Each piece has diameter of 40mm, weighs 1 ounce, fineness of 9999 silver. The article [i.e. medal] is of the specified standards. Old Feng Yang of Shanghai Limited Company. March 2007.

Wandering round antique and junk shops for a few hours, is my idea of heaven. Especially if there are Grandfather clocks ticking in the background, which adds to the restful and absorbing atmosphere. Beats any other form of doorstep shopping, which is mostly hellish.

yes , a great ammount of groats were struck during the Henry's reign , the annulet groats are probably the most common english hammered groats... the war against France was very expensive ... also the groats of Henry VII can be found quite easily in good conservation ... What do you think about the Stewartby's hypothesis that the first annulet groats were struck during the last weeks of the reign of Henry V ?

Very nice acquisition ! I have got a similar one but it is the previous variety , with the cross not curved ..

I would take the card into the local Chinese chip shop Brian

Hi Dicky. welcome to the forum . The 1861 penny, as with the 1860 - 62 pennies have a wide variation of date widths , as indeed so do a good number of dates throughout the bronze pre-decimal period of production, but during these first thee years of production the variations in position of the last digit seems to be almost infinite , as it can be found up to far, down to far, rotated , and in distance from the 6. Because of this, Its thought that the last digit was punched onto the die by hand. I show a few examples of this below Terry