85g (SCBI 13:299-301 Copenhagen IIIa
Davies 192
with a pleasing portrait with raised centering spot
equestrian portrait of armoured King James VI on horseback right
first coinage (1603-04)
William III 1699 Five-Guineas, 1st date in reign 85g (SCBI 13:299-301 Copenhagen IIIaWilliam III (1694 1702), gold Five Guineas, 1699, first laureate bust right, legend and toothed border surrounding, GVLIELMVS. III. DEI. GRA., the last two words further apart, rev. crowned cruciform emblematic shields, six strings to Irish harp, emblematic sceptres in angles, Lion of Nassau at centre, date either side of top crown, legend and toothed border surrounding, . MAG. BR. FRA. ET. HIB. REX., edge inscribed in raised letters, inverted As for