A rare 'half groat' or two-penny piece minted during the reign of Henry VII is likely the oldest English coin found in Canada, experts reveal. The stunning silver coin was found by archaeologists in ...

Minted in Canterbury between 1493 and 1499, the silver half groat dates to the middle of Henry VII's reign, when a rebellion led by pretender Perkin Warbeck threatened to unseat the nascent Tudor ...

One of the Henry VI-era silver groats which have been donated to the Armagh Robinson Library A collection of antique coins which date back almost 600 years has been donated to a County Armagh library ...

IT was first minted in the mid-1300s and ceased to be currency more than a century ago, but today Scotland's ancient coin, the groat, is making a depression-era comeback. The groat first became ...

IT is a battered old coin which was originally worth only four old pennies - or close to 2p in modern money. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to ...

A collection of antique coins which date back almost 600 years has been donated to a County Armagh library due to their unusual link to the area. The silver groats were minted in the 15th Century, ...