Coins and Historical Medals

Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Second issue, Pennies (3), all mm. martlet, bust 1H, beaded inner circles, large shield, read e d g rosa sine spina, 0.44g/1h, 0.47g/9h (BCW MR-1B:MR-a1b, MR-1B:MR-a2?); similar but reads spna, 0.48g/7h (BCW MR-1B var.:MR-a5; N 1988; S 2558) [3]. Good fine or better, last chipped £120-£150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Coins of Elizabeth I from the Collection Formed by Walter Wilkinson.

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Provenance: First bt A. Gillis January 2017; second I.D. Brown Collection, St James’s Auction 31, 16 December 2014, lot 22 [from Baldwin 1956]; third Baldwin Auction, 5 November 2016, lot 141