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Rose Type 4a

This is the simpler design with single arched crowns both sides, a single rose, but still retaining the longer legends. Privy marks can be ? lis/lis, mullet/mullet, mullet/crescent, crescent/mullet, and crescent/crescent. This last having a variety with the N of FRAN reversed., and others with distinctly rounded obverse crowns.

Illustrated? E.186d/p.328. pm=crescent/crescent. (rounded obverse crown).? 1639-45 (EXR) aef