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I got the Edward III quarter noble in April, 2020 and this Henry V quarter noble in May, 2021. These kings marked England's high points at the start and end of the Hundred Years War. This coin would have been struck around the time of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. At Agincourt the mostly Welsh longbow archers, together with French bad decisions and mud, resulted in French disasters like at Poitiers and Crecy in 1357 and 1347. Henry V has been dramatized in Shakespeare's play about this battle and especially his pep talk to the team the night before the battle.
After Agincourt Henry V unfortunately didn't last long, and his son Henry VI was nuts and ineffective as a ruler. England went on to lose the territories in France it had held going into the Hundred Years War, and to dissolve into its own Wars of the Roses for most of the rest of the 1400s.
At the end of the 1400s Henry VII would come to England across the channel with an army to defeat Richard III and take up the crown, founding the Tudor line of monarchs. Much like Henry V's father, Henry IV of Bolingbrook, had crossed the channel at the close of the 1300s to depose his young cousin Richard II.
NGC has graded two of these in AU55 and one in VF20. In details grades there are this coin and another in UNC details (the other damaged, and more flat looking). There is one on VF details also. PCGS has graded two of these of slightly different varieties (S-1756, S-1757) , both in MS grades (MS62 and MS63+).