The silver coinage carried the facing stylised bust of a king, a general design introduced by Edward I in 1279, which would survive until the Tudors. ![]() The design was also used for the half-noble (not illustrated), but was too elaborate for the small quarter-noble, which instead had the shield of England and France. The design may be a reference to the great naval victory at Sluys (1340), the first victory of the Hundred Years War, although it may be simply a reference to the image of the king as captain of the ship of state. The design of a king standing in a ship (see photograph) was introduced by Edward III in 1344, when the coin itself was first produced as part of England's first successful revival of gold coinage. ![]() it was worth a third of a pound or half a mark. The noble was the highest value coin in England (and probably in Europe).
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