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Obverse. (Part of the detail is as on the monarch’s Third Great Seal). King Charles I, narrow of countenance and with pointed beard, seated upon a canopied throne, its curtains drawn aside and in part held up by diminutive figures, its lateral supports formed on each side by a carved lion sejant affrontée. The monarch is crowned, wearing a flowing cloak fastened at his breast, a ruff collar, and over his cloak the collar, chain and badge of St George. His right hand holds a long sceptre, his left an orb ensgined with a cross. His feet, and those of the lateral lions and supporters, rest on a carved and stepped platform. To either side of the throne: dext. a lion sejant affrontée, holding on a lance a flag charged with the Cross of St George; sin. an unicorn sejant reguardant holding similarly a flag charged with the Cross of St Andrew. Around the whole, a scroll bears the legend