Скачать или смотреть 1540's silver groat of King Henry VIII of England

A bold well-centered profile of the king as a clean-shaven young man on bright silver. The legends are legible and the metal disc is big enough to fit the whole design, except for the outer rim.

Henry the Eighth started out married to Catherine of Aragon in Spain for a long time, 24 years, without having any kids. He started his own church when the Pope wouldn't let him return Catherine because she was pre-owned. Even though Henry still had all the receipts.

Five or six wives later Henry's coins would bear an unflattering realistic facing portrait of the fat bejeweled grizzly he became.

Henry was the name of a series of usurpers of the English throne over the previous 200 years. After fairly unbroken father-to-son Plantagenet transmission of the English throne since 1100, Edward III's grandson Richard II lost the crown by a revolt of the nobility to a cousin Henry of Bolingbrook who became Henry IV. His son was the brilliant Henry V of Agincourt fame. Henry VI was a putz and bore no relation to Henry VII other than that his widowed wife shacked up with Henry VII's Welsh Tudor ancestor, Owen. Henry VII only gained the crown by hacking Richard III to bits after invading England as the final act of the Wars of the Roses. This Henry VII was the father of Henry the Eighth.