Legend: * E / DWAR o DVS x' DI GRA x) REX \/ ANGL /\' 7 \/ FRANC /\' / \/ DNS x I...

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Legend: * E / DWAR o DVS x' DI GRA x) REX \/ ANGL /\' 7 \/ FRANC /\' / \/ DNS x I \/ B /\' Initial mark rosette; Lombardic N; 7 between ANGL and FRANC takes form of sharply-angled S-shape. Stops: (1) annulet; (2) single saltire above which is a curved mark with a pellet on either side; (3) single saltire above which is a curved mark; (4), (6), (8) and (10) three pellets arranged as triangle with apex pointing downward; (5), (7) and (11) three pellets arranged as triangle with apex pointing upward, above which is a curved mark; (9) single saltire flanked by two triangular arrangements of pellets. Coin face: rose on side of ship, extending over four strakes visible, pellets in centre; top strake only with various ornaments; triple row of pellets representing beads or gold collar around neck of king's effigy; no mark in waves; type of old noble with addition of Edward's personal badges, the rose and the sun. Shaft: relatively short, square in section where spike joins shaft, chamfered to create octagonal, simply by taking the corners off; the four large faces are each concave turning to round section c 10 mm. below coin face; shaft concave, presumably for ease of handling; tip of spike blunted, almost square in section; very slightly bent. Height of shaft 53 mm. Height of spike 56 mm. Diameter. of coin face (no bevel) 36.5 mm.

Classification: Walters, Numismatic Chronicle (1909), p193, no 1 var; North, p 69, illus 77

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