Watch List notes:

Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Sixth Issue, Shillings, Tower, .925 Fine, bust 6A (5), 1582-1583, 4.16g, 7h, m.m. bell, clipped small; others, 1582-1584, m.m. A (2), 5.53g, 10h; 5.79g, 4h; also, 1584-1586, m.m. escallop, 5.72g, 2h; lastly, 1587-1589, 5.74g, 8h, m.m. crescent/crescent over escallop (North 2014; Spink 2577), the third scruffy and scratched, otherwise flat portraits, the reverses generally better, fair to about fine, with the historic 'Crescent issue' for the year of the Spanish Armada (5).
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