Silver Groat

The Groat was first introduced to the English currency during the reign of Edward I (1239-1307), but proved very unpopular, and so were sporadic in the years in when they were minted, especially after the coins dated 1561 when they were not issued for general circulation again for about a hundred years, even then it was still sporadic with the issuing of the silver groat after the1786 issue the only others issued were in 1792, 1795, and 1800, again a gap in the years until 1836 to 1855.

They cesased to be produced in 1856, because they caused plenty of confusion with the recently released threepence coin, though in 1857 and 1862 groat proofs are known to exist and in1888 a special colonial issue was minted.

But a fourpence coin is still being minted but is used as part of the Maundy Money ceremony.

	Silver Threepence The Three Pence coin first appeared during the reign of Edward VI (1547-1543) , when a new set of coin denominations were created. The silver threepence was not produced every year and went in and out of favour.