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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jamesicus, post: 4770093, member: 14873&quot;]Just passing interest: Elizabeth I was an accomplished Calligrapher - as a young princess she was tutored by Roger Ascham - a renowned British scholar who did much to introduce Italian Renaissance cultural influences to Britain. Ascham was himself an accomplished Calligrapher.</p><p><br /></p><p>I own (or rather owned, for I cannot find it) the following coin of hers:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/5205bb45-96e5-4733-9bc5-e5acc5e7ecc4-jpeg.882685/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse inscription: ELIZABETH DG ANG FR ET HIB REGINA</p><p>(Elizabeth by the grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland)</p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse inscription: POSVI DEV ADIVTOREM MEV</p><p>(I have made God my helper)</p><p><br /></p><p>She frequently wrote letters etc. in a fairly accomplished hand many of which have survived the passage of time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an exemplar of Elizabeth’s Italic (cancellaresca corsiva) writing hand:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1161985[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>She is the only monarch that was a practicing calligrapher that I know of.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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