Watch List notes:

Elizabeth I, Dangers Averted, 1589, following the defeat of Spanish Armada in 1588, a superb 19th century heavy silver restitution of Nicholas Hilliard's gold medal, bust of the Queen full-face, crowned, holding sceptre and orb, wearing high, open ruff, ornate gown with puffed shoulders, scrolled design in field, DITIOR IN TOTO NON ALTER CIRCVLVS ORBE, rev. a bay-tree flourishing on a small island, uninjured by lightning and winds, border of leaves, NON IPSA PERICVLA TANGVNT, 60.5 x 51.5mm. (MI.154/130; Eimer 61A), small integral suspension loop with small section of linked rosette chain attached, much as made, toned, good very fine and very rare
This piece, showing the additional scrolled design in the obverse field, is copied from the gold example acquired by the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge in 1936 (which is illustrated in Eimer).
(400-600 GBP)