Help with ID please 🙂

[Poppy]

Hello! Without taking the coin out of the capsule because I haven't got any proper gloves or anything yet; I've tried to take a close up photo and I wondered if anyone might be able to tell me what coin this is please? It's from a set of recently inherited coins. I have an old magazine  / book from 2013 with has been quite helpful as a reference for some coins but not for this particular one (assuming it's a genuine coin).

Thank you 🙂

[Paddy]

I am not good on all the detail, but seems to be Henry VI Groat minted in Calais. I leave the precise variety to others!

The middle circle on the reverse reads "VILLA CALISIE" which is Calais.

 

[Poppy]

Ah ha I can actually see how it spells that out now! Amazing - Thank you 😊 this is going to be quite the learning curve!

[HistoricCoinage]

Paddy is correct - it's also an annulet issue. This is denoted by the small rings by the neck and between two of the trefoils in the centre of the reverse.

[Poppy]

Fantastic 🙂 thank you! I could clearly see those small rings but just couldn't work out what they might be. That's really helpful, thank you again!

I've got these books and the older two have an explanation (with some pictures in the small book) of how hammered coins were produced, it's really interesting 🙂.

[Paddy]

Those books are interesting but only really scratch the surface. They are more for general interest than reference.

For GB pre-decimal coins you really need "Coins of England and the United Kingdom", which comes out each year. (No need to get every year as most of the detail remains fairly static.) Here it is on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Coins-England-United-Kingdom-2025/dp/1917269005/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1BP3BH96G6F8E&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.n4edWGlfb0yBRNDiHCBke5TXqasrBgeyFMD1Mxlg1X5FyKMNS5_w0cPGFQTteufUMLUWKZQ7NLwDhuQMSDq7W3yvSt0Vdhzl0QEvg4PFWCnEE7LZYMHuEVoJFPhxn7PS9HyQwSy6F_D1wm6gvN3uLAtRISHccMe9iyK-1czDV-RR0j-8iokTk-Q6lfvgwfyEQbJh_tgEGJ57pCTeIEBxnpMKzvtXBQPNSFJcrPZj5ek.RLeA8d0awh9bFG9pAjuAGOTGTPi2U6cRY13R1oddGLw&dib_tag=se&keywords=spink+coins+of+england+2025&qid=1761917519&s=books&sprefix=coins+%2Cstripbooks%2C218&sr=1-1

For World coins, the main reference books are the Krause World Coins series, but these are telephone directory tomes, one for each century,  and I am not sure if they are even still printed. Best is to use the online website https://en.numista.com/ unless you need to get very specialised.

[Poppy]

Amazing 😊 that book looks extremely helpful, thank you SO much. I'll try to get a copy which I think will greatly help with my little cataloguing project here! This is such an awesome forum 🤩