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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Reverse. Equestrian: the king on a horse galloping to sinister, (on clear impressions) he wears fluted armour with open helmet surmounted by an arched crown upon which the lion crest, a plume of ostrich feathers hangs down behind his head; in his right hand the monarch brandishes a sword aloft, with his left he grasps a shield bearing (on clear impressions): quarterly, 1 and 4. Quarterly, FRANCE (Modern) and ENGLAND; 2. SCOTLAND; 3. IRELAND. In field, to rear of horse, a harp, ensigned with a crown (for IRELAND), behind the king a rose en soleil, similarly ensigned (for ENGLAND), and in front of the forelegs of the horse a fleur-de-lis, likewise ensigned (for FRANCE). The horse gallops over a field in which flowers are growing, and a collared greyhound runs by its side.
