UK98524. Silver shilling, SCBC 2549, North 1985, gF, dark toning, some weakness in portrait, flan crack, London (Tower) mint, weight 5.436g, maximum diameter 32.2mm, die axis 270
o, 1st issue, 1560 - 1561; obverse (cross crosslet) ELIZABETH D G ANG FRA ET HIB REGINA (Elizabeth, by the Grace of God, Queen of England, France, and Ireland), crowned bust left, decorated dress, wire and bead inner circles; reverse (cross crosslet) POSVI DEV ADIVTOREM MEV (I have made God my helper), coat-of-arms (passant lions and fleurs-de-lis) on long cross fourchée, wire and bead inner circles; ex Leu Numismatik web-auction 16 (25 May 2021), lot 5069 (part of); ex collection of a Swiss scholar (formed over the past thirty years);
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