1 Crown - Elizabeth I 6th Issue

The sixth issue of Elizabeth I's coinage (1592–1600) is distinguished by the addition of the key mintmark sequence running through those years — tun, woolpack, key, and anchor — each change signaling a new warden's term at the Tower Mint rather than any design revision. The Crown denomination in gold sat at five shillings, a value that made it functional for large transactions without requiring the unwieldy bulk of a sovereign.

Elizabeth's later coinage years coincided with sustained pressure on royal finances from the ongoing war in the Low Countries and the 1588 Armada campaigns. The mint worked under those fiscal strains, yet gold fineness held at 22 carat throughout — a standard England had maintained since Edward VI's recoinage of 1551.