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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John the Jute, post: 568183, member: 17740&quot;]Hi Rachel,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This is not my area of specialization, but nobody has replied to your post since yesterday, so I&#039;ll have a go. I&#039;m basing my answer on the 2008 Spink catalogue, &quot;Coins of England and the United Kingdom&quot;.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Yes, it is an Elizabethan hammered coin made of sterling silver. It looks like a coin from Elizabeth&#039;s third silver issue. These coins came in four denominations distinguished by weight and by the diameter of the inner beaded circle:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>* sixpence, 48 grains, 17.5 mm</p><p>* threepence, 24 grains, 14 mm</p><p>* threehalfpence, 12 grains, 10.5-11.5 mm</p><p>* threefarthings, 6 grains</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>These range in retail price between £35 and £60 in fine condition. (I&#039;m sorry, I&#039;m not knowledgeable enough to grade the coin.)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The Latin inscription round the reverse is, &quot;Posui Deum adiutorem meum&quot;, which means &quot;I have made God my helper&quot; and is an allusion to the first half of verse 4 of the 54th Psalm.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Later,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>John[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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