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Sovereign of Thirty Shillings: Elizabeth I (obverse); Shield of Arms on Tudor Rose (reverse)
The collection record classifies this work as coins. It is dated 1583–1603. Recorded culture or place: England, Elizabeth I, 1558-1603.
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- Museum title
- Sovereign of Thirty Shillings: Elizabeth I (obverse); Shield of Arms on Tudor Rose (reverse)
- Date
- 1583–1603
- Culture / origin
- England, Elizabeth I, 1558-1603
- Materials and technique
- gold
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 4.3 cm (1 11/16 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1969.181
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
A point of interest of this very rare piece is the initial mark. The mark, in the shape of a crosslet, and visible at the start of the inscription, dates the die to 1560–61. However here it has been over stamped with another mark, an A, used in 1583–85. This indicates the reuse of the die of the first coinage during the third coinage period. The restoration of the coinage to its proper fineness was completed during this reign. In 1562 a proclamation had been issued reducing the value of all coinage by one third. It was restored to full value again in 1572, when a new coinage was ordered at the old values. There would still be economic troubles ahead, however.
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