Mary

Mary, Queen of Scots, silver counter or jeton, 1579, crowned shield of France and Scotland impaled, MARIA D G SCOTOR REGINA FRAN DOI, rev., a vine, one branch withered, one flourishing and being watered from an urn in clouds above, MEA SIC MIHI PROSVNT, 28mm (MI 129/80; Eim. 50; CP.13/13). Good fine.

Provenance: J. Scaife Collection, Spink Auction, 30 September, 2005 (lot 530).