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A "Cinquefoil" is a five petal flower. It is used in heraldry to indicate "mastery over self".

Cinquefoils are often found on coins as a decoration.

Cinquefoil stops were often used on the edges of some coins, notably the British Crown (Five Shillings), to enclose the Regnal date (usually in Roman numerals) of the King or Queen, most commonly, Queen Victoria's coins.

The VIII within the cinquefoil stops indicate that it is the 8th year of the reign of that particular King or Queen.

A British Crown with a Regnal date of VIII would be an 1844 Queen Victoria Crown coin.

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Were any Edward VIII coins ever minted?

There were no British coins issued with a likeness of Edward VIII on them. The Royal Mint had set about designing them and a few pattern coins were produced. All of these coins are supposedly accounted for. Some coins were produced and issued for some of the colonies including British East Africa and British West Africa, Fiji and New Guinea, but these coins did not feature his likeness, only his name.


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