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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robp, post: 24822707, member: 96746&quot;]Thanks. I like it too. It&#039;s actually quite an informative coin concerning the chronology of the series. There are nearly 3 dozen discrete varieties for the series involving various combinations of 3 obverse dies and 3 basic reverse designs but with legend variations which it has been suggested were produced in sets, but this reverse die contradicts that theory.</p><p><br /></p><p>The three obverses were the familiar adopted Gothic bust as seen on the currency florin and Gothic Crown of the previous year, the laureate head seen earlier and a filleted head seen here.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1589271[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse designs were as the adopted seen earlier, the VR monogram above and a variation on the wreath seen on shillings etc. I still need an example of the latter with the ONE CENTUM/100 MILLES legend paired with the adopted obverse, so no picture to hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>Three of the varieties are mules of two different reverse dies. VR mongram both sides reading ONE FLORIN &amp; ONE TENTH OF A POUND / ONE FLORIN &amp; TWO SHILLINGS and two VR/Wreath pairs, one pair reading ONE DECADE and the other ONE CENTUM. The ONE DIME is notably absent. If you look at the ONE DIME reverse, you can see that DIME has been punched in over a filled FLORIN legend, so must be later than the bulk of the varieties. The reverse pairs had to be concurrent, and as one of them includes the ONE FLORIN reverse, the DIME must have been an afterthought. Probably significant is that the ONE DIME is only used on the adopted reverse, suggesting that choice had already been made regarding design, but not the legend nor the obverse, as all three obverses are paired with the ONE DIME reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>All in all a quite fascinating little group of patterns.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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