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Coin (Obverse), half-testoon, from reign of Mary, Queen of Scots

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Coin (Obverse), half-testoon, from reign of Mary, Queen of Scots
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This is the obverse of a silver half-testoon minted at Edinburgh in 1562, in the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots, during her first widowhood. The coin was worth two shillings and six pence Scots.

The obverse bears a portrait of the queen, with the date, 1562, in a cartouche below. The Latin inscription translates as: 'Mary, by the Grace of God, Queen of Scots'.

Mary's coinage is divisible into five phases, reflecting her early life, two marriages and two widowhoods. During her reign numerous issues appeared in gold, silver and base metal, many of them comprising denominations never previously struck.

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