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Auction: 15005 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 423

Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Pattern shilling, 6.03g, m.m. key, crowned bust left, bust punch as used on gold issues, spur rowel counterstamp behind bust, regi, rev. long cross fourchée over plain square topped shield (N.2044; S.- ), general weakness but retaining some good detail on the bust and with the legends fully readable, carefully struck on a specially prepared flan and thus retaining the tidy presentation of a pattern, very fine and a very rare shilling of this reign

provenance:
Spink, 22-23 June 2011, lot 697 (£5200 inc. prem.)
SNC, December 1972, No 11680 (£100)

The five point mullet stamped in the field behind the Queen's head may be a contemporary merchant's or banker's test mark.

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Estimate
£4,000 to £6,000