Harry Sovereign Public Deposited
The designation sometimes applied to the Sovereign of Henry VII of England who first struck this coin in 1489. J. Stephens, in his Satyrical Essayes, 1615 (371), writes: "She hath old harry soveraignes... to give away on her death bed."
- Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)