copper Half-Farthing
facing crowned bust with nothing on breast
Farey 590 S
in its original Royal Mint blue leatherette wallet with certificate
with the Eiffel Tower dominant on the skyline
Scotland, Mary Queen of Scots, 1553 Half-Lion of Twenty-Two Shillings MS63 copper Half-FarthingScotland, Mary Queen of Scots (1542 67), gold 22 Shillings, first period, 1553, crowned Scottish arms, pellet over crown, I G either side for Jacobus Gubernator, legend surrounding between wire thin linear circles, outer toothed border to rim, MARIA. D. G. R. SCOTORVM, rev. crowned Mary Regina monogram, cinquefoil either side, date in legend, DILIGITE IVSTICIAM 1553 (Burns 3, fig. 816; SCBI35: 987; SCBI 58; 253 4; SCBI 71: 548 Stewartby; S. 5396).