British Coins, Countermarked Issues

Elizabeth I, first issue, groat, mm. lis (1558-60), wire line inner circles, bust 1F, plain dress between plain straps, ELIZABETH D G ANG FRA Z HIB REG, rev. long cross fourchée over square shield, POSVI DEV ADIVTOREM MEV, wt. 2.07gms. (S.2550; N.1986; Brown & Comber 1F), obverse lettering poorly struck between 10 and 1 o’clock, good fine, very rare
*ex Huth, Sotheby, 14 June 1927, lot 356, part
R. C. Lockett, Glendining, 27 April 1960, lot 4106 [2]
Purchased Baldwin, 1981.