Denominations.—Silver. Groat, Half-groat, Penny, Halfpenny, and Farthing. Gold. Noble, Rose-noble Royal or Rial, Half-noble or Half-rial, Quarter-noble or Quarter-rial, Angel, an Angelet or Half-angel.
Obverse.—Type. The general types of his silver coins are same as those of his predecessors. The Groat and Half-groat have the bust within the circle of arches; Penny, Halfpenny, and Farthing, the same as before. Some have the royal badge of the House of York, the rose, on either side the neck of the bust, and others an annulet and rose, or four pellets, etc., on the breast; others with the initial letter of the town.
Legend. Edward. With titles as before. On the Farthing EDWARD REX ANGL. Reverse.—Type. Similar to the others.
Legend. On Groat and Half-groat. POSVI DEVM ADIVTORE MEVM in the outer circle, and name of town in the inner. On the lesser coins the names of towns only, as CIVITAS LONDON, etc.
Gold. Noble. Same type as his predecessor. Rial or Rose-noble, and its Half, much the same general type, but with a rose on the side of the ship, beneath the king and letter E on the flag.
Reverse.—Within a tressure as before a sun of sixteen rays in place of limbs of the cross, the lions and crowns and the terminations of the limbs remaining.
Legend. As before. Quarter-rial: arms as before within a quatrefoil; there are several minor varieties. Angel and angelet as before. The sun and the rose were badges of the House of York.
EDWARD V. (1483.)
There are some gold and silver coins exactly similar to those of Edward IV., but bearing as mint marks a boar’s head, a rose-en-soleil, or a rose-en-soleil on one side and boar’s head on the other, that are conjectured to have been issued by this youthful king by authority and order of his uncle the “Protector,” afterwards Richard III., whose badges they bear. They are extremely rare.