Medal for defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588, 51 mm., later cast in copper, satirising the blindness of the Papacy; the Pope with kings and others in conclave sit with bandaged eyes while spikes spring up in the floor, rev. the Spanish armada dashed on the rocks (MI.i.111), very fine; contemporary shilling and sixpence, made in pewter from a hoard found under the floor of a hall in Langhrane Castle, in Wales, fair; a second counterfeit pewter sixpence, dated 1561, from an unknown source, almost fine; a pewter token with crowned double rose between E-R and legend GOD.SAVE.THE.QVENE, rev. double headed eagle, pierced twice, very fine; a pewter token with double rose between pillars and beneath crown with legend .gods./a/v/the./qvene, rev. crowned lion rampant with garter around, corroded, otherwise fine; a copper token or medallet with the queen enthroned beneath canopy and REGI.ANG. in exergue, rev. arms of England with crest above and REGIS ANGLI:/IN SIGNIA around, fine (7)

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Medal for defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588, 51 mm., later cast in copper, satirising the blindness of the Papacy; the Pope with kings and others in conclave sit with bandaged eyes while spikes spring up in the floor, rev. the Spanish armada dashed on the rocks (MI.i.111), very fine; contemporary shilling and sixpence, made in pewter from a hoard found under the floor of a hall in Langhrane Castle, in Wales, fair; a second counterfeit pewter sixpence, dated 1561, from an unknown source, almost fine; a pewter token with crowned double rose between E-R and legend GOD.SAVE.THE.QVENE, rev. double headed eagle, pierced twice, very fine; a pewter token with double rose between pillars and beneath crown with legend .gods./a/v/the./qvene, rev. crowned lion rampant with garter around, corroded, otherwise fine; a copper token or medallet with the queen enthroned beneath canopy and REGI.ANG. in exergue, rev. arms of England with crest above and REGIS ANGLI:/IN SIGNIA around, fine (7)