拍品描述： MS61 | Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Seventh Issue, Pattern *in Gold* for a Groat [?], 1601, after Nicholas Hilliard, Tower [?], • VNVM • A • DEO • DVOBVS • SVSTINEO, crowned three-quarter facing bust with richly ornamented and bejewelled bodice, wearing expansive ruff, rev. AFFLICTORVM CONSERVATRIX, crowned ELIZABETH monogram, dividing 1601, 4.34g [66.8grns], 6h, edge plain, p.m. sexfoil [six-pointed star] (Tyssen 2589a = Grieve 30 = Whitehead = Huth 565 = Vaughan-Morgan 42 = Lockett 2042 same dies; Ducie 28 this coin; Montagu [1885], pp. 1, no. 1 [Half Groat]; BMC [Peck] 7; North 2050; Brown and Comber P7; MI 177/177), a breathtaking canon of Tudor portraiture and most enchanting image of the Elizabethan form, struck on coin alignment with a light ochre tone overlying quite brilliant fields, extremely fine, of the highest rarity with only two recorded in gold, a truly momentous occasion being the first appearance at public auction since October 1956 and a Gold pattern that has evaded even the finest Numismatic cabinets both past and present, in NGC Horace Hird holder, graded MS61 (Cert. #6135299-051)