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Obverse. Queen Anne enthroned, as on her First Seal, beneath a semi-circular canopy, decorated alternately (as is the back of the throne) by roses and thistles; she wears a royal crown, the collar, badge and star of the Garter, and a fringed ermine cloak over her decorative dress; her left hand holds an orb surmounted by a cross semi-botonny, her right hand a sceptre topped by a cross paty; her feet rest on a tasselled cushion. To either side of the pillar bases of the throne (that dexter displaying a rose, and that sinister a thistle) dext. a lion sejant affrontée crowned, supporting an oval shield depicting the cross of St George, and upholding on a lance a flag depicting dext. quarterly, 1. and 4. Three lions passant guardant in pale, ENGLAND, impaling a lion rampant within a double tressure, SCOTLAND; 2. Three fleurs-de-lis, FRANCE; 3. An harp, IRELAND; sin. an unicorn sejant gorged wih a coronet, supporting an oval shield bearing the cross of St Andrew, and upholding upon a lance a flag depicting the combined crosses of St Andrew and St George. By the pillars of the throne stand again two allegorical figures, dext. a figure of Piety, holding a model of a church; sin. a figure of Justice holding a pair of scales in the right hand, a bundle of Roman fasces with the left. Above the throne, ensigned by a royal crown, is a shield, not encircled by the Garter: Three lions passant guardant in pale, ENGLAND, impaling a lion rampant within a double tressure flory counter-flory, SCOTLAND. Roses and thistles alternately form the stops of the legend.