British Coins, Countermarked Issues

Elizabeth I, third issue, threefarthings, 1567, mm. coronet (1567-70), bust 3I, E D G ROSA SINE SPINA, rev. long cross fourchée over shield, wt. 0.37gm. (S.2571; N.2002; Brown & Comber 3I), irregular flan, fine/good fine, exceedingly rare
*ex H. M. Lingford, purchased by Baldwin, 1951, with his ticket.
Collector’s note: ‘Not in BM, R C-B., R. C. Lockett or North. Only other specimen Naish (Seaby Nov’ 45)’.