British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Pre-17th Century Pieces, Elizabeth I, Lyon counter, pewter, lion rampant to left surrounded by Garter, rev. French shield between two crowned columns, 2.05g/12h (Mitchiner Gp g, 4621; MI I, 121/60). Good very fine and well-struck, very rare £100-150

The Lyon counters appear to have enjoyed the widest usage among the general population of all counters of English manufacture during their heyday, the 1580s and 1590s