AU53 | Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Second Restoration Coinage, Sixth Issue [Fine Gold], Double Rose Noble or Fine Sovereign [of 30-Shillings], (Pyx Period: 1 June 1587 - 31 January 1590), Tower, ELIZABETH • D . G . ANG . | FRA • ET • HIB . REGINA • (m.m.) Queen seated on ornamented throne with very fine latice work and annulet backing, holding orb and sceptre, holding orb and sceptre, flanked by double-pellet and annulet-adorned pillars, Portcullis below atop ornate tressure through which it and only her crown breaks, rev. (m.m.) A • DNO • FACTV . EST • ISTVD ET • EST • MIRAB • IN • OCVL NRS . Royal Shield set atop Tudor Rose, spandrels plain, 15.30g [236.1grns], 8h, m.m. crescent over scallop (HCN 340; Brown and Comber A20 [Type ii d]; Lockett 4089 this coin; Schneider I, - [cf. 779-783] this m.m. unrepresented; North 2003; Spink 2529), the portrait struck soft, otherwise an attractive old cabinet tone, almost very fine, a rare variety and an historic issue, current for the year of the Spanish Armada, in NGC Horace Hird holder, graded AU53 (Cert. #6135299-048)