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Description: | Hammered silver coin, bent in two places producing a somewhat 'corrugated' appearance. It is mostly covered in a mid-brown patina with occasional brighter silver areas mainly on the reverse. Both faces are worn but the obverse is particularly bad and much of it is indecipherable.Obverse: Crowned bust facing left, no rose, surrounded by a ring of pellets.E . D . G . R(OSA . SI)N(E) . SP(IN)A . (Elizabeth by the grace of God a rose without spines)Reverse: straight sided round bottomed shield containing the royal coat of arms quartered by a long cross fourchee over, surrounded by a ring of pellets. Mintmark fleur de lis followed by CI(VI TAS L)ON DON surrounded by another ring of pellets; no date.Assessment: The coin is badly worn however there is enough surviving that the inscriptions can be worked out with reasonable confidence by comparison to better preserved examples. There is also a mint mark visible on the reverse at the top which is worn but appears to be a 'fleur de lis' . This would date th coin to the first issue, 1558-60. Less likely is the 'ermine' which would date it to the 3rd and 4th issues 1572-3. It was minted in London.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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