British Coins, Countermarked Issues

Elizabeth I, sixth issue, sixpences, 1596 (2), first, mm. key (over woolpack)/key, second, mm. key (1596-99), bust 6C, ELIZAB D G ANG FR ET HIB REGI, rev. long cross fourchée over shield, wts. 3.30gms., 2.96gms. (S.2578B; N.2015; Brown & Comber 6C), the first with irregular flan, both good fine (2)
First purchased Spink, 1972, second ex R. C. Lockett II, Glendining, 16 October 1956, lot 2016 [11] and B. Roth, Sotheby, 20 July 1917, lot 287 (pt.), purchased P. Ireland.