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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sylvester, post: 14256, member: 708&quot;]Yes it&#039;s a sovereign, not the usually 20 silling sovereign but a &#039;Fine Sovereign&#039; of 30 shillings... and it&#039;s mightly fine indeed, but it&#039;s a 1553 dated one.</p><p><br /></p><p>The legend goes something like this.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obv; MARIA DG ANG FRA Z HIB REGINA MDLIII (Mary by the Grace of God Queen of England, France and Ireland 1553)</p><p><br /></p><p>Rev; A DNO FACTV EST ISTV Z EST MIRA IN OCVL NRIS which is an abbraviated form of A DOMIONO FACTUM EST ISTUD ET EST MIRABLE IN OCCULIS NOSTRIS (This is the Lord&#039;s doing and it is marvellous in our eyes)</p><p><br /></p><p>So it&#039;s not Henry VII but it&#039;s his grand daughter Queen Mary I of Protestant burning fame.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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