Watch List notes:

Elizabeth I (1558-1603), 'Distress Relieved', Seventh Issue, Pattern for a Groat [?], 1601, after Nicholas Hilliard's Miniature c. 1594, in silver, Tower [?], • VNVM • A • DEO • DVOBVS • SVSTINEO, crowned three-quarter facing bust with richly ornamented and bejewelled bodice, wearing expansive ruff, rev. AFFLICTORVM CONSERVATRIX, crowned ELIZABETH monogram, dividing 1601, 3.98g, 6h, edge plain, p.m. sexfoil [six-pointed star] (Montagu [1885], pp. 1, no. 1 ['Half Groat']; BMC [Peck] 8; North 2050; Brown and Comber P7; MI 177/177), rub to high points, otherwise lightly toned, a really good very fine, and rare a fitting compliment to our record breaking Gold offering from the recent Hird dispersal.
Provenance
Richardson FPL, May 2017, no. 69 - £5,750
Spink 240, 26 September 2016, lot 2016
Spink 212, 28-29 March 2012, lot 518
Spink 1, 11 October 1978, lot 195 - £950
Dr Ernest Christison Carter, collection dispersed by Baldwin, 1950
Estimate: £3000 - £4000