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Sunday, December 13, 2020

King Henry VIII's coins found

A family in southern England found the trove of 64 coins while gardening. (The Trustees of the British Museum). When Henry divorced Catherine to marry Anne Boleyn, the Royal Mint issued a new set of crowns inscribed with the letter “A.” Three years after that, when Henry had Anne beheaded on trumped-up charges of adultery, incest, witchcraft, and conspiring to kill him, the Mint produced yet another gold coin, this time dedicated to the monarch’s latest queen, Jane Seymour. Though Henry married three more times, his later wives (Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr) never appeared on the kingdom’s currency—perhaps a wise decision considering the difficulty of keeping up with an ever-shifting cast of queens.………. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/gardeners-unearth-trove-coins-inscribed-initials-henry-viiis-first-three-wives-180976538/

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