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Auction: 24014 - The Alfred Leonard Fuller of Bath Collection of English Silver Coins and Tokens
Lot: 148

Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Sixth Issue, Shilling, 1 February 1590 - 31 January 1592, Tower, (m.m.) ELIZAB .' D .' G .' ANG .' FR .' ET : HIB .' REGI .' crowned bust 6B left, rev. (m.m.) POSVI DEV .' ADIVTOREM • MEV .' square-topped shield over long cross fourchée, 5.961g [91.992grns], 6h, m.m. hand (BCW HA-1/HA-b; North 2014; S.2577), some peripheral striking softness, otherwise richly toned, a pleasing very fine, the pyx-mark so extraordinarily crisp that one can identify the knuckles of the inner hand!

Provenance

The Alfred Leonard Fuller of Bath Collection (1870-1941)

Acquired from Messrs Spink & Son, 5 January 1900 - £0.12.6

Spink Numismatic Circular, January 1900 (P.3775, no. 59213) - "m.m. hand, extremely fine" - £0.12.6

*NOTE. All the shillings described above are in excellent preservation, even those marked F, being above the average condition"

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