British Coins, Countermarked Issues

Elizabeth I, second issue, groat, mm. martlet (1560-61), bust 1F, ELIZABETH D G AN FR ET HIB REGINA, rev. long cross fourchée over square shield, legend reads MEVM, wt. 1.89gms. (S.2556; N.1986; Brown & Comber 1F), lightly buckled, otherwise almost very fine, rare with reverse legend ending
Purchased Baldwin, 1980.
Collector’s note: ‘Reading with reverse ending not in R. C. Lockett or BM’.