Watch List notes:

An Academic Collection of Elizabethan Sixpences (100) | Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Sixpences (100), including: 1561, m.m. pheon, large size (Spink 2559); and reduced issue (2); 1562, Z type 2 over 1, mm. pheon (2); 1563 over 2[?]; 1564, m.m. pheon (2), one 1564 over 2; 1565 (2), m.m. pheon and rose; 1566 (2), m.m. lion and portcullis; 1567 (4), m.m. lion and coronet (3); 1568, m.m. coronet (6), including: 'square-topped 8' (4), inverted 8 over 7, and inverted 8; also, 1569, m.m. coronet (2); 1570 (3), m.m. coronet (2), m.m. castle; and, 1571, m.m. castle, pierced; others, 1572, m.m. ermine (7), including: normal date (4), 'inverted 2' (2), 2 over inverted 2, one normal date issue clipped to inner circle; and, 1573 (5), m.m ermine (2); m.m. acorn (3), one straightened and glued; 1574 (2), m.m. acorn and eglantine; 1575, m.m. eglantine; 1576, m.m. eglantine (3); 1577 over 6, m.m. eglantine (4); 1578 over 7, m.m. Greek cross; 1579, m.m. Greek cross (3); 1580, m.m. Latin cross (4), normal date (3), 1580 over 79; 1581, m.m. Latin cross; 1582 (2), m.m. sword and bell; 1583, m.m. eglantine (2), pierced; 1584 (2), m.m. A and escallop; 1585, m.m. escallop (3); 1586, m.m. escallop (2); 1587, m.m. crescent; 1588, m.m. crescent; 1589, m.m. crescent; 1590, m.m. hand; 1591 (3), two normal dates; another 1591 over 0; 1592 (2), m.m. hand and tun; 1593, m.m. tun (3); 1594 (5), m.m. tun (1); and, m.m. woolpack (4), normal date (3), another, 1594 over 3; 1595, m.m. woolpack; 1596 (4), m.m. woolpack; m.m. key over woolpack; and, m.m. key (2); 1597, m.m. key; 1598, m.m. key; 1599, m.m. anchor with rounder flukes right; 1601, m.m. 1 (2); 1602 (4), m.m. 1; and, m.m. 2 (3), highly variable condition, mostly worn, pitted or soil found with the usual scrapes, scuffs and splits, otherwise most legible and a remarkable 'date set' including a multitude of key dates from the time of the Spanish Armada and the highly elusive late 1590s issues under the key and anchor pyx marks, a rare opportunity (100).

Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,200.00