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Reverse. The Queen, vested as obverse, seated on a horse pacing to dexter, bearing an embroidered saddle-cloth, flank-straps and breast-band. In field, which is replenished with flowering plants, in addition to the two roses en soleil as on obverse, a third rose, a fleur-de-lis and an harp (its first appearance on a royal seal), each ensigned with a royal crown, symbolic of the three kingdoms of ENGLAND, FRANCE and IRELAND. Overhead, a cloud with radiant beams. Legend as on obverse, the stops being prominent roundels or bezants (ten times recurring in all – which Sandford, perhaps with wishful thinking, explains as shewing the queen’s descent from the Briton, Cawdor, Earl of Cornwall, whose armorial bearings were ten bezants