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"title": "Ryal: Elizabeth I in Ship (obverse); Rose over Radiate Sun (reverse)",
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"inscription": "IHS; AVT; TRANSIENS. PER. MEDIV; ILLORVM. IBAT",
"inscription_translation": "'as Jesus passed invisible and in most secret manner by the middest of the Pharisees, so gold was made by invisible and secret art amidst the ignorant'",
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