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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Obverse. The King enthroned, with shaven face and youthful appearance in a simpler version of the ‘Bretigny’ seal., below a triple gothic canopy supported upon a carved corbel. On fine impressions the monarch is seen to be wearing plate armour and a crown of five points, above which a rose. His left hand holds an orb bearing a long cross pommée (or crosslet), his right hand a sceptre terminating in seemingly a reliquary. By the king’s feet, two facing lions sejant guardant. In each of two lateral niches culminating in cusped ogee arches supporting a pent roof with lead lines, a shield: quarterly, FRANCE (Modern) and ENGLAND; dext. above the shield a rose above a sun in splendour, and below the shield a sun in splendour and a rose side by side; sin. above the shield, a sun in splendour, below it a sun in splendour and a rose. Below the two small lions sejant guardant against the monarch’s feet, dext. a rose; sin. a sun in splendour. In field, on either side, a watchman on a square turret with two narrow loop-holes, bears a lance and banner. Roses separate the words of the legend
