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Edward III’s griffin instead of still more Tudor publicity….!

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If you go to the link below, you can zoom right in on this illustration

Here we have the Queen’s final beast in the silver and gold coin series. Well, a least it’s not another mangy Tudor creature this time! 

The usurpers probably pinched it somewhere along the line, but Edward III—a dazzling Plantagenet if ever there was one!—got there first.

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